Showing posts with label Zamu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zamu. Show all posts

Friday, August 3, 2012

Japan's Wonderful Sunflower Festival...

Wordsworth wrote about seeing a crowd,
a host of golden daffodils.
I guess he hadn't seen fields of glorious giant Sunflowers.
The Japanese Sunflower Festival, also called the Himawari Matsuri Festival, is held in Zamu, located in the Kanagawa Prefecture.
Zamu is world famous for its extensive Sunflower fields and its visitors can enjoy their Sunflower seeds, Sunflower beer and Sunflower pasta amongst other Sunflower delights.
You can see more about the festival here.
Fortunately too for the world, Vincent Van Gogh saw the Sunflower and in 1888 painted his wonderful series featuring this beautiful bloom...




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