Wisteria — known as fuji in Japanese — has a firm place in the Japanese heart, cultivated to no small extent by writers, who have made much of the vine. These gracious purple and lavender pendants have been lauded since the Nara Period (710-794), mention of them appearing in the “Manyoshu,” the oldest existing anthology of Japanese poems. The Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi Prefecture is a spectacle of considerably cultivated wisteria, their forms as concisely and manipulatively shaped as bonsai trees, or the espaliered roses of an English garden. (Stephen Mansfield photos)
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