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Hiroshima Flower Festival
Hiroshima Flower Festival
	Symbol Flower Tower with Flame
Location(s)	Hiroshima
Founded	1977
Website	http://www.hiroshima-ff.com

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 festival includes multiple stages for entertainment, shops, a small zoo, and other amusement attractions along Peace Boulevard and in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Many concerts, dancing shows, fashion shows, talk shows, and traditional and contemporary performances featuring local citizens and other events are held throughout the area. Locals also participate in a parade, and Yosakoi dance on Peace Boulevard.

History

The origin of the festival is the Japanese professional baseball Central 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]

Themes

The underlying themes of the festival are to:^[2]

Make Hiroshima full of flowers, greens, and music.
Share the brightness and dignity of life with all people.
Appeal for a warm-hearted cultural and personnel interchange from Hiroshima to the world.

Events

The key events of the festival are:^[3]

Parades

Flower parade on May 3.
Kinsai (visit us) Yosakoi parade on May 5.

Concerts and performances

Multiple concerts and performances on twenty stages, and in seventy squares every day.
Candlelight services with peace messages and origami cranes
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:

Year	Flower singer	Other artists
1977, 1978	Naomi Sagara
1979, 1980, 1985	Yoko Seri
1981	Junko Sakurada
1982	Hitomi Ishikawa
1983	Ikue Sakakibara
1984	Hidemi Ishikawa
1986	Judy Ongg
1987	Miho Nakayama
1988	Yū Hayami
1989	Noriko Sakai
1990	Tomomi Nishimura
1991	Fuyumi Sakamoto
1992	Eriko Tamura
1993	Reiko Kato
1994	Oyunaa
1995	Marcia
1996	Ranran Suzuki
1997	Yoshie Hayasaka
1998	Kim Yeon-ja
1999	Hikaru Nishida
2000	Kumiko Endo
2001	Miki Sakai
2002	Wakako Shimazaki
2003	Hitomi Shimatani
2004	Sonim
2005	Sayaka Kamizono
Year	FF special guests	Other guests
2006	MAX, Koriki Choshu, Hinoi Team
2007	Masashi Akiyama, Takako Uehara, Younha
2008	Ai Kawashima, Kousuke Atari, TDR characters
2009	Jero, Kaori Mizumori, Yokota-Kaguradan	Aki-Gakudan, Osedo Chishima, Takashi & Chiharu, Sayaka Kamizono, Katsuhiko & Maco, Kentaro Kihara, Takahiro Miyazaki, CNA, DSC, Tomonari Takano, Takarabune, Chiharu Tamaki, trunk, Shoji Narita, Mebius, Kenta Morimoto, Anri Kumaki, The generous, Scandal, Miho Fukuhara, Lil'B

References

^ 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. Archived from the original on November 13, 2017. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
^ "Hiroshima Flower Festival data". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-10-24.
^ "Hiroshima Flower Festival data". Archived from the original on 2009-04-11. Retrieved 2009-10-24.