Niwaki #2

This is what really high-end tree pruning in the proper Japanese way gets you:

However, just down the road from that photo at Zuisenji, chain-saw based, "progress" continues apace:

And even more sadly, the building next to the most beautiful gingko in our neighbourhood (previously blogged here) has been razed. Hope the new build will sport a solar-paneled roof! It is not clear to me whether the tree will survive but I suspect its days are numbered: