Ōmiya Bonsai Village
Ōmiya Bonsai Village (大宮盆栽村 Ōmiya Bonsai-mura) is the nickname for the bonsai nursery precinct in Bonsai-chō (盆栽町 Bonsai-chō), Kita-ku, Saitama, Japan.
Bonsai Village is located near Ōmiya-kōen Station on the Tobu Noda Line. It is closed on every Thursday (unless the Thursday falls on a national holiday).
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[edit] History
- 1925: Settled by a group of professional bonsai gardeners who originally lived around Dangō-Zaka (Hongō) area in Tokyo and emigrated from there due to the crucial damages caused by the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, at Toro and Hongō settlements of Ōsato village.[1]
- 1940 Ōsato village merged with other villages to form Ōmiya city.
- 1957 The official suburb name 盆栽町 (Bonsai-chō lit. Bonsai Town) was given to the precinct.
- 2001 Ōmiya city merges with other cities to form Saitama City.
- 1 April 2003 on the day of the government designation of Saitama City Bonsai-chō was classified in Kita-ku.
[edit] Today
As of 2007, the Bonsai Village nurses hundreds of thousands of bonsai trees (bonsai pots) in a site of about 330,000 square meters.
Bonsai Village consists of about ten privately owned bonsai gardens.
Annually, Bonsai Village holds the "Great Bonsai Festival" from 3-5 May. During the festival the area is packed with many bonsai devotees from all over Japan.
From the early 1990s, Omiya Bonsai-cho has seen a slight contraction in the number of nurseries.
[edit] See also
- Bonsai - Japanese tradition of growing miniature trees in containers
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Apricot/7111/sub2-2.htm from The Birth of Bonsai Town (盆栽町 Bonsai-chō no Tanjō) by Shōzō Kusakabe, 1996.
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