Masaki and I happened to visit the Hibiya Park, which is located
near the Imperial Palace, on our way back from the
Tokyo Station where I bought a trainticket for tomorrow.

At a corner in the park, we saw an exhibition of Japanese chrysanthemums.
There are so many kinds of chrysanthemums in the world, and
some of them grow so easily and are sold very cheaply.

But this special kind of huge chrysanthemums need
very tender care to grow as you can see in the pictures.

I do not think everyone in Japan like chrysanthemums - in fact
I seldom buy any kind of them although they are
very common to decorate Buddhists' family altars.
(I usually choose other kinds instead - such as carnations or daffodils)
But anyway, all Japanese people have at least once seen
these huge kind chrysanthemums : )

Some of them are as tall as my height.
But it seems being too tall is not considered very good.








These are BONSAI type.



These ones were very impressive to me.
I hadn't seen this kind before.
They are also as tall as the others although the stems were
covered for some reason.

According to someone's explanation, this kind of chrysanthemum is the original image for
the Imperial crest of the chrysanthemum (see below) .




It makes sense, anyway : )



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