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.
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.[citation needed]
The origin of the festival is the Japanese professional
baseballCentral 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]
Mikoshi,
Kagura and peace concerts are held at night.
Flower singer
A featured performer termed the Flower singer was arranged to sing the theme song each year up to 2005. From 2006 the Flower singer was replaced with Flower Festival special guests, and other guests were also noted. These performers have been:
^元祖“黒船グラドル”アグネス・ラム来日騒動 [The uproar of the arrival in Japan of the original "foreign gravure idol" Agnes Lum (page 3)] (in Japanese).
Nikkan Gendai. March 7, 2014.
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