Chamaecyparis obtusa (Japanese cypress, hinoki cypress or hinoki; Japanese: 檜 or 桧, hinoki) is a species of cypress native to central Japan.
It is a slow-growing tree which grows to 35 m tall with a trunk up to 1 m in diameter. The bark is dark red-brown. The leaves are scale-like, 2–4 mm long, blunt tipped (obtuse), green above, and green below with a white stomatal band at the base of each scale-leaf. The cones are globose, 8–12 mm diameter, with 8–12 scales arranged in opposite pairs. The related Chamaecyparis pisifera (sawara cypress) can be readily distinguished in its having pointed tips to the leaves and smaller cones.
The plant is spread in Japan. A similar cypress found on Taiwan is treated by different botanists as either a variety of this species (as Chamaecyparis obtusa var. formosana) or as a separate species Chamaecyparis taiwanensis; it differs in having smaller cones (6-9 mm diameter) with smaller scales, and leaves with a more acute apex.
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
Downwards, downwards
Life's spiraling descent
All love is lost
Premature and unreasoning
Premature and unreasoning
Perversely chained without any values
Perversely chained without any values
Wretched, degraded
Wretched, degraded
Take it all on the chin
To forever hold my peace
To forever hold my peace
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The reins turned noose, pull taunt as I fall
The figment is more painful than fact
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, for being me
The murky clouds wash, solace comforts not
And I'm the one to hang
Just for being me, just for being me
Black numbing blanket smothers attrition