Editing Ginkgo biloba (section)

===1000-year-old ginkgo at Tsurugaoka Hachimangū===
[[File:Ginkgo-reborn-2.jpg|thumb|upright|The stump of the ancient fallen ginkgo which has produced new shoots in recent years.]]
At the [[Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū|Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū's]] shrine in the city of [[Kamakura]], [[Kanagawa Prefecture]], Japan, an ancient ginkgo tree stands beside the stone entry staircase. According to legend, the tree has stood there since the founding of the shrine circa 1063.<ref name=GreatGinkgo>{{cite web |title=10-The Great Ginkgo大銀杏 |url=http://www.tsurugaoka-hachimangu.jp/precinct_guide/the_great_ginkgo.html |website=Tsurugaoka Hachimangu |access-date=5 May 2018 |archive-date=5 May 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180505135232/http://www.tsurugaoka-hachimangu.jp/precinct_guide/the_great_ginkgo.html }}</ref> The tree is nicknamed ''kakure-ichō'' (hiding ginkgo), because of an [[Edo period]] legend in which [[shōgun]] [[Minamoto no Sanetomo]] was assassinated in 1219 by his nephew, [[Kugyō (priest)|Kugyō]], who had hidden behind the tree to ambush the shōgun.<ref name=GreatGinkgo/>

Modern scholarship has established that ginkgos arrived from China in the 14th century, and a 1990 tree-ring measurement indicated the ''kakure-ichō's'' age to be about 500 years.<ref name="Hori-2001"/>

On 10 March 2010, the tree blew down in a storm, but the stump has since sprouted vigorously.<ref name=GreatGinkgo/>