The Hiroshima Flower Festival (ひろしまフラワーフェスティバル) is a flower festival held annually in Hiroshima, Japan.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
Japan
Written in its own script on record as ひろしまフラワーフェスティバル.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
Every claim links to a public record below. Free to quote, teach, and share under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapter Takeaways
OverviewThe Hiroshima Flower Festival has been held every year since 1977 during Golden Week, from 3 May to 5 May.
HistoryThe origin of the festival is the Japanese professional baseball Central League Champion parade for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp team in 1975.
ThemesThe underlying themes of the festival are to:
EventsThe key events of the festival are:
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Hiroshima Flower Festival in plain words?
The Hiroshima Flower Festival (ひろしまフラワーフェスティバル) is a flower festival held annually in Hiroshima, Japan. In local script on record, it is written ひろしまフラワーフェスティバル.
Where is Hiroshima Flower Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Hiroshima Flower Festival in Japan.
What is the current condition of Hiroshima Flower Festival today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Hiroshima Flower Festival entry?
Cite as: "Hiroshima Flower Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/hiroshima-flower-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
The Hiroshima Flower Festival (ひろしまフラワーフェスティバル) is a flower festival held annually in Hiroshima, Japan. 1
Overview
The Hiroshima Flower Festival has been held every year since 1977 during Golden Week, from 3 May to 5 May.
More than one million people take part in the festival each year.
The festival includes multiple stages for entertainment, shops, a small zoo, and other amusement attractions along Peace Boulevard and in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Many concerts, dancing shows, fashion shows, talk shows, and traditional and contemporary performances featuring local citizens and other events are held throughout the area. Locals also participate in a parade, and Yosakoi dance on Peace Boulevard. 1
History
The origin of the festival is the Japanese professional baseball Central League Champion parade for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp team in 1975. At the inaugural festival in 1977, Agnes Lum had to be escorted from the festival on a fire truck due to the number of fans overwhelming the event. 1
Themes
The underlying themes of the festival are to: 1
Make Hiroshima full of flowers, greens, and music.
Share the brightness and dignity of life with all people.
Appeal for a warm-hearted cultural and personnel interchange from Hiroshima to the world. 1
Events
The key events of the festival are: 1
Parades
Flower parade on May 3.
Kinsai (visit us) Yosakoi parade on May 5. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Hiroshima Flower Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Hiroshima Flower Festival is annual Flower Festival in Japan, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2