Japan Flora: Tree with pendulous lateral branches, the branchlets 4-6 mm. wide; leaves lustrous, deep green above, with a conspicuous white area beneath, the lateral ones obtuse, ascending, flat and semiovate, 4- 6 mm. long, the median appressed, broadly obovate; cones 1-1.6 cm. long, dehiscent, the scales 6-10 mm. long, broadly cuneate, with a deltoid, obtuse, spreading mucro below the apex; seeds elliptic, 4-5 mm. long, 3-3.5 mm. wide, with a thickish wing. Mountains;

Honshu (centr. distr. northw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; often planted.

var. hondae Makino. Branchlets more dense; cones larger and globose; scales with아it a prominent mucro. Hokkaido, Honshu (n. distr.).