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† Those thirty thousand cherry trees
vary in their estimates, depending which guide book or web site you visit.
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Some travel guides claim that Yoshino has thirty thousand cherry trees.
Two other travel guides claim that Yoshino has one-hundred-thousand cherry trees.
The latter numbers must be taken with a large quantity of salt: maybe if they cut down all the cedars in Yoshino
and replaced them all with cherry trees, there might be room for one-hundred-thousand.
Even the three thousand number is suspect, because many travel guides will tell you that Yoshino is divided into
four areas: 下千本 (shimo senbon, lower thousand trees),
中千本 (naka senbon, middle thousand trees),
上千本 (kami senbon, upper thousand trees), and
奥千本 (oku senbon, deep forest or inner thousand trees).
My British education leads me to believe that's at least four thousand trees—but a
little short of the thirty thousand claimed by some travel guides.
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