I spent the day with some friends at the gardens today enjoying the beautiful fall weather and the emperial chrysanthemums on display. Apparently the chrysanthemum is the flower of the emperial family here.
It has been for hundreds of years. No one is allowed to use this symbol for anything or on anything. It's use is exclusively for the emperor and his family. The emperor used to open up his gardens to a select group of individuals every year to come and enjoy this beautiful flower. At some point, not real sure when, the tradition changed and now us regular peeps are allowed to come and take a gander.
They truely were beautiful and the ingenious way they are pruned and trained really make them that much more enjoyable.
The gardens are beautiful and I can't wait to go back and visit when the cherry blossoms are in bloom.
This place just screams, "bring a book and hot chocolate and stay a while."
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