(2335) Cherry trees 2021, Part 8: Someone has to do the dirty work...

 ...when the cherry blossom petals fall as we were saying yesterday. Here, an apprentice priest in the Ushijima Jinja (牛嶋神社), also in Mukojima, on the other side of the river, since the year 860. 

(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr).