Fugen elephants at Tsukiji River Sendai Bridge Park at Tsukiji 5-chome bloom in five minutes.
Fugen elephant is a type of the family Rosaceae and is a horticultural variety of the Satozakura group.
The flowers are large, double-flowered and light red. The flowering season is late April, slower than other cherry trees.
It is an old variety that is said to have been around since the Muromachi period, and its mysterious name is written in kanji as "Fugen Elephant", and two leafed pistils are elephant fangs (some are written as nose) It is said that this name was given because it resembles).
There are kawazu-zakura and weeping cherry tree in Sendai Bridge Park, but kawazu-zakura blooms much earlier than Yoshino cherry tree, weeping cherry tree blooms almost at the same time, and Fugenzo blooms quite later.
The photo below shows the Siddhartha Gautama statue (center, important cultural property) owned by Tendai sect Daijiyama Ganko-ji Temple in Kaniancient temple, Gifu Prefecture. On the right side is the Fugen Bodhisattva seated statue, riding the elephant of attendant Buddhist statues. By the way, on the left side is Manjushri seated statue, riding a lion (→ Manjushri of "If you come by three people, the wisdom of Wenju")
