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"This venerable tree is known as the Muku tree of the Shimizudani residence after the house of a course nobel Shimizudani reisidence who lived nearby. The tree is some 300 years old, one of the few big muku trees found in this garden. When the Kimmon Incident in 1864, near the tree, a Choshu samurai, Kijima Matabee who led a radical 'revere the Emperor and expel the barbarians' ('Sonnojoi') group, is said to have died a heroic death beside this tree."