A Connection With History Today the Grand Shrine at Ise, with its lovingly cultivated 13,600-acre grounds, thick glades of Japanese cypresses and rocky stream where worshipers dip their hands in ritual purification, offer the 6.5 million Japanese visitors each year a connection with religious tradition.

Stone steps were guarded by a pair of gnarled dark green Hinoki cypresses, trimmed to resemble fantastic creatures.

A thin, penetrating wind blew through the layers of dark-green dwarf Hinoki cypresses which ascended with them as they mounted the steps.

Dwarf yews, plum-yews and hemlocks flourish in full shade, and Hinoki cypresses are good candidates for partial shade.

The pale pebbles, rearing, water-racked boulder and miniature Hinoki cypresses conjured up Japan in the deliberate methodology of the Western gardener, more homage to form than understanding of substance.

Hinoki cypresses, with their spiraling soft needles, grow among Alberta spruces and dwarf pines above a curving rock wall, where sedums, little yellow alliums, anemones and perennial geraniums nestle between the stones.

The name Hinohara means the field or forest of Chamaecyparis obtusa.

One of the most popular is the Hinoki cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa).

Taxifolin 3-O-glucoside isomers have been separated from Chamaecyparis obtusa.

The larvae feed on Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa.

Golden accents are supplied by the yellow-tipped foliage of the evergreen Chamaecyparis obtusa Crippsii.

A similar cypress found on Taiwan is treated by different botanists as either a variety of this species (as Chamaecyparis obtusa var.

Another traditional cup is the 'Masu (Japanese)', a box usually made of 'Chamaecyparis obtusa' or 'Cryptomeria', which was originally used for measuring rice.

Also striking, he said, are the many forms of Hinoki false cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), with their glossy scalelike needles, unusual shapes and rough-textured bark.

Hinokiflavone, a cytotoxic biflavonoid from Toxicodendron succedaneum, Juniperus sp., or Chamaecyparis obtusa (hinoki).

Seven Japanese-style rooms are composed of various woods such as Paulownia tomentosa, rosewood, Chamaecyparis obtusa, maple and pseudocydonia.

State champion trees - Loblolly Pine, Pinus taeda; and Hinoki False Cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa.

Amentoflavone is a chemical constituent of a number of plants including Ginkgo biloba, Chamaecyparis obtusa (hinoki), Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort) and Xerophyta plicata.

An eight-foot-tall Hinoki false cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), a native of Japan, occupies a position just outside of Mr. Wheeler's kitchen, a screen for the "big ugly buildings across the street."

Plants growing in the city show characters of the warm temperate zone such as Cryptomeria, Chamaecyparis obtusa, Pinus thunbergii, Paulownia coreana, Pitch Pine, bamboo, camellia, and palm trees.

Japanese Garden - Japanese plants with a raked-stone Zen garden; plants include Acer palmatum 'Kiyohime', Acer palmatum 'Seiryu', Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana Gracilis', Lagerstroemia fauriei, Nandina domestica f. capillaris cultivars, and Pinus taeda 'Nana'.