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HOME > Sanjo Tourism Guide > See & do > Historical Sites > Man'yo Wisteria (Man'yo-no-Fuji)

 A poem from volume 17 of the Man'yo-shu (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, Japan's oldest existing collection of poetry) written by Oohara-no-takayasu-no-mahito (aka. Takayasu-no-ookimi) mentions this Japanese wisteria tree.

"妹が家に伊久里の森の藤の花今来む春も常かくし見む"
 "Imoga ieni ikurino morino fujino hana. Ima komu harumo tsunekakusi mimu"

During spring, when I see the flowers of the Japanese Wisteria from Iguri, I think of my sister who was married off to a distant place.

 Beautiful purple flowers bloom here every year around the beginning of May.

Where:	Iguri, Sanjo
Access:	Vehicle:	Approximately a 20min drive from the Sanjo-Tsubame Inter-Change (Hokuriku Expressway) down the National Route 403 heading towards the city of Kamo.
	map to location (in Japanese)

Sanjo City Office/955-8686 3-1 Asahicho2, Sanjo-shi, Niigata
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