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In the year 1955, Egawa Kazei from Niigata City created new varieties like 'Echi no Akana', 'Shiunden' and 'Eikan', and Higuchi Yugen from Gosen City crossed a peony with a peony, from which emerged in 1962 the first yellow peony.