Ryukyu Pine

Iheya's Nento Hiramatsu is the second tree on its spot: the first was felled around 1716 and, the story goes, whoever cut it down fell ill soon after, so the replacement has stood untouched for two to three centuries since. Taipei's Common Three Pines predate their own building; National Taiwan University recessed the floor plan of its teaching block rather than remove them, and laid a wooden deck around their roots. Kagoshima's coastal pine takes its name from the Ryukyu trading ships that once steered by it, a landmark from the centuries after Satsuma conquered the Ryukyu kingdom in 1609.