Owari Tsushima Wisteria Festival2024年04月13日 (土曜日)

Introduce “Owari Tsushima Wisteria Festival” starts today.

In 2007,  Tennogawa Park was selected as one of Japan’s top 100 historical parks. The wisteria trellis in Tennogawa Park was built from 1978 to 1982 and was expanded in 1992. Today, this magnificent wisteria trellis measures 275 m in length and 5,034 m² in area, and is one of the most brilliant wisteria trellises in Japan. In early summer, the Owari Tsushima Fuji Matsuri attracts tourists from all over Japan.

Fuji, or wisteria, in full bloom with elegant clusters of flowers hanging down has attracted people since ancient times as one of the most popular flowers between April and May. This plant is mentioned in the Kojiki, an account of ancient matters and Man’yoshu, the oldest existing collection of Japanese poetry. The wisteria is regarded as an auspicious tree for its longevity and was believedto be planted as a garden tree in the Heian Period for its beauty.

The color of wisteria flowers is light purple and this color is called fuji-iro (wisteria color) in Japanese after the flowers.