Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Hirosaki Chrysanthemum Festival
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Hirosaki Chrysanthemum Festival- Nov. 7, 2009- this is the continuation of my post last week. Every year Hirosaki Castle Park holds Chrysanthemum Festival during fall season, from mid October to early week of November.
They have this festival to celebrate the nature and beauty of the fall. There are thousands of maple and cherry trees have its color of leaves turned into red and yellow in this period of season.
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Thank you Missy for sharing these pretty photos. What amazing creations. Hope you are doing well.
I hope you are enjoying northern Japan. Getting cold,take care.
Interesting pagoda made from flowers! I always associate Chrysanthemum with the emperor's throne in Japan.
I don't think I can recognize a chrysanthemum flower if I see one.
Mildred- thanks for visitng my blog, sorry I've been busy lately can't visit other blogs right now
Kilala- thanks for dropping by, do you know me? hehehe yes right now I'm enjoying Northern Japan but I can't wait to find out what would be our next base LOL
Nomadic- actually I didn't know about chrysanthemum until I found out that Hirosaki has a chrysanthemum festival, I have to ask google. And dound out that "Chrysanthemum Throne" is the name given to the position of Japanese emperor. I'm not expert when it comes to flowers hehehe. Yes, the pagoda is nice
BertN- me too Bert, there are different kinds of chrysanthemum, like 30 species
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