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Wisteria Hysteria- a PURPLE HAZE Over Tsukuba (and most of the rest of Japan)
15 April, 2021
Wisteria at Matsushiro Park
Under a wistaria trellis, thick with the smell of its nectar and a buzz with the droning of bees
By Avi Landau
From my old house in Konda, Tsukuba, I had a clear view of the Woods. I spend some time each day gazing out over these last remaining wilds of Tsukuba, trying to savor their beauty as often as I could before the bulldozers showed up and cleared them all away. From my window I used to able to observe how , what were at first small patches of light violet, would almost completely take over the thickly foliated forest canopy, which seemed to be enshrouded in a purple haze. This morning, having some time to spare, I took a 3 hour hike in the some of the last remaining Konda woods, those on the site of the ruins of the old Konda Castle ,and most of the time, whether I looked up towards the sky or down on the gro