Editing Ginkgo biloba (section)

==In culture==
[[File:PrefSymbol-Tokyo.svg|thumb|upright|Symbol of [[Tokyo]], Japan's capital, representing a ginkgo leaf]]
The ginkgo leaf is the symbol of the [[Urasenke]] school of [[Japanese tea ceremony]]. The tree is the official tree of the Japanese capital of [[Tokyo]], and the symbol of Tokyo is a ginkgo leaf. Since 1948, the badge of [[Tokyo University]] has been two ginkgo leaves (designed by Shoichi Hoshino), which became the university logo in 2004 with a redesign.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/about/public-relations/b01_05_01.html |title=東大マーク |website=東京大学}}</ref> The logo of [[Osaka University]] has been a simplified ginkgo leaf since 1991 when designer [[Ikko Tanaka]] created it for the university's sixtieth anniversary.<ref>{{cite web |title=The official logo of Osaka University |url=https://www.osaka-u.ac.jp/en/guide/logos |access-date=18 June 2019}}</ref>

In professional [[sumo]], wrestlers ranked in the two highest divisions ({{Transliteration|ja|[[jūryō]]}} and {{Transliteration|ja|[[makuuchi]]}}) wear an elaborate [[chonmage|topknot]] called {{Nihongo|{{Transliteration|ja|[[Glossary of sumo terms#ōichōmage|ōichōmage]]}}|大銀杏髷||{{lit|ginkgo-leaf topknot}}}} because it resembles the leaf of the ginkgo tree.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cuyler |first=Patricia Lee |date=1979 |title=Sumo: From rite to sport |url=https://archive.org/details/sumofromritetosp0000cuyl/mode/2up |url-access=registration |publisher=New York: Weatherhill |isbn=9780834801455|page=139}}</ref>

Ginkgo is an official tree of [[Seoul]] since 1971, designated by the [[Seoul Metropolitan Government]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tree, Flower & Bird - |url=https://english.seoul.go.kr/seoul-views/seoul-symbols/4-tree-flower-bird/ |access-date=2023-08-12 |website=Official Website of the |language=en-US}}</ref>