Entering through the Keiga Gate, there is a wisteria tree called “Sunazuri-no-Fuji” (wisteria flowers drooping down to reach the sand on the ground), as the flower clusters can be seen to hang down for more than 1 meter when in bloom by early May. The tree is probably a variant of Japanese wisteria, and is said to have been planted by the Konoe family, a prominent family of historical importance. It is over 700 years old, and was mentioned in “Kasuga Gongen-genki”, a picture scroll offered to Kasuga Taisha in 1309.
There is also a wisteria garden at the Man’yo Botanical Gardens in the shrine’s precinct, where about 200 wisteria trees of 20 different varieties grow and bloom beautifully in the spring.