To me, flowers are happiness.
—Stefano Gabbana

The wisteria bloom shortly after the cherry blossoms end. In fact the wisteria festival often starts as soon as the cherry blossom festival ends. Stalls selling Japanese junk food like okonomiyaki or taiyaki make plenty of money in this season†.

The wisteria are long and blow gently with the wind. While that sometimes makes for challenging photos, in this photo I embraced it and took a long-exposure, letting them blur together.

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Footnotes

†: Here's some trivia for you: these food stalls at all the Japanese festivals are usually run by yakuza. In fact festivals in general in Japan have a lot of yakuza connections.

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