Hydrangea (Ajisai)

鎌倉市山ノ内にある臨済宗建長寺派寺院。別名「あじさい寺」。開基は上杉憲方、開山は密室守厳。境内を埋める数千本の紫陽花は見事で、シーズンには多くの人で賑わう（鎌倉市観光協会のサイト）。

北海道函館市。道内最大規模のアジサイ園。約13,000株のアジサイが咲く。

静岡県下田市。アジサイの株数は日本一。

高知県香南市。河川堤に沿ってアジサイが咲く。高知県の観光情報サイト「よさこいネット」が紹介。

寺伝によりますと、天平年間に、僧行基の開基と伝えられる伊勢西国三十三所観音霊場第1番札所。境内には藤と紫陽花がそれぞれの時季に見事な花を咲かせ、参拝者を楽しませています。

The National Diet Library (NDL), founded in 1948, is the library which belongs to the Diet. The NDL assists the activities of the National Diet. The Library collects and conserves materials and information both from Japan and abroad, serving as a foundation of knowledge and culture and providing library services to administrative and judicial entities and Japanese citizens.

As Japan’s representative museum, Tokyo National Museum collects, preserves, displays, and researches the cultural properties of Asia with a focus on Japan, and also provides educational programs.

General Museum and Research Institute of Japanese History / A member of National Institutes for the Humanities, Inter-University Research Institute Corporation

The Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art stands as the nexus of art advancement in Japan, charged with fostering the creation and development of art and culture in Japan, and the cultivation of aesthetic awareness among the Japanese people. Through its six art museums — The National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, National Film Archive of Japan, the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, the National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the National Art Center, Tokyo — the National Museum of Art carries out diverse and distinctive activities that fully utilize the unique character of each member museum.

The University of Tokyo is promoting the construction of digital archives. The University of Tokyo Archives, The University Museum, Information Technology Center, and University of Tokyo Library System collaborate on this project.

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art was founded as the successor of the Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, which originally opened in Sakae, the center of Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture, in 1955. The museum opened in 1992 as part of the Aichi Arts Center, an urban cultural complex, and has established a wide-range collection of approximately 8,000 items, centered on works of art of the twentieth century. The Museum has also organized numerous exhibition of a wide-range of themes. The Museum has actively worked to develop and communicate new aspects of art and culture to the public, based on its core mission to serve as the primary art museum of the Chubu region.

The Tokyo Fuji Art Museum is founded on November 3, 1983, in Hachioji, a thriving university town in the western suburbs of the Japanese capital. Priding itself as “a museum creating bridges around the world” to facilitate the exchange of different cultures, our museum has forged cordial relations with art museums and cultural institutes in 32 countries and territories to date. We do so by bringing the world’s finest works of art to Japan while reciprocating in kind by introducing the finest Japanese treasures to the world through special exhibitions that showcase their beauty and wonder through a unique new set of prisms and perspectives. Our museum possesses some 30,000 pieces of artworks from various periods and cultures including Japanese, Eastern and Western works, ranging from paintings, prints, photography, sculptures, ceramics and lacquer ware to armor, swords and medallions. Especially noteworthy is its outstanding collection of Western oil paintings that spans a five-hundred-year period from the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Romanticism to Impressionism and contemporary art, as well as its exceptional collection of photographic masterpieces that can give an overview of the history of photography from the birth of the photograph to the present age.

The Pola Museum of Art opened in September 2002 in Sengokuhara, Hakone, amid the abundant nature of Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park, with the concept of “symbiosis between Hakone’s natural beauty and works of art.” The Pola Museum of Art’s diverse collection contains around 10,000 items, including Western painting, modern Japanese Western-style painting, contemporary nihonga (Japanese-style painting), prints, sculpture, Oriental ceramics, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, glasswork, and cosmetic utensils.

国立科学博物館附属自然教育園（東京都港区）内に生息している生物の種名や写真を調べることができる。

国立科学博物館筑波実験植物園（茨城県つくば市）内の植物を検索することができる。研究者ノートなど専門的な解説もあり。

神戸市北区にある。アジサイに関する情報を収集、発信。

「NHKみんなの趣味の園芸」（NHK出版）公式サイト。植物・花の基本情報、育て方などを「趣味の園芸」講師陣の専門家が執筆。園芸相談Q&Aや特集コーナーがある。

美の壺「あじさい」回のダイジェスト。