DATE:		March 26, 2006
PLACE:		35 Ono Goryo-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto
DIRECTION:		5-minute walk from the Subway Tozai Line at Ono station (subway direction for Daigo)
TEL:		81-75-571-0025
ADMISSION:		1,000 yen on the festival day (admission for the Hanezu-odori dance, plum garden and temple)
TEXT:		In olden days, cerise was called “Hanezu,” and the red plum trees of the Zuishin-in Temple are still named after this ancient title. The Hanezu-odori dance is based on a tragic story of a pilot officer Fukakusa who loved a beautiful poet who lived in this region, Ono-no-komachi. It is not known when exactly this dance originally started, but in 1973, it became an annual event to announce the coming of spring.