The Sacred Tree, which once dominated Alishan, was a 53-meter-tall, 6.3-meter-diameter, 3,000-year-old Formosan cypress discovered by the technician Tomijiro Ogasawara during the Japanese occupation.
曾經雄霸阿里山的神木，是棵高達 53 公尺、直徑 6.3 公尺、樹齡 3,000 歲的台灣紅檜，日治時期被負責調查阿里山的日籍技師小笠原富二郎發現。