樹齢200年を超える見事な枝ぶりのクロマツが、結婚式場の庭園にどっしりと根を張っています。 天満川を望むここには、かつて民家がありました。 1941年の秋。「私が戦地に行っても、この木のことは頼む」と、丹精した庭のクロマツを家族に託した当主。 その願いは遺言となり、若くして家を継ぐことになった息子へ、孫へと代々伝えられてきました。
広島に原爆が投下された1945年8月６日。 爆心地から1,900mにあった邸宅は、爆風による倒壊は免れたものの、隣接する建物から燃え移った火に焼かれてしまいました。 けれど、庭のクロマツは戦火を生きぬいたのです。 一家にとって守り神のようなこの木は、いつしか敬意を込めて「賢老人」と呼ばれるようになりました。 そして、2022年。
クロマツをそのまま保存して公開するという約束のもと、この地は結婚式場として生まれ変わることに。 時を同じくして、広島市の被爆樹木に登録されました。
どんな時代の波も乗り越えて、家族を見守ってきた木は今、訪れる人たちの幸せを見守っています。

This grand Japanese black pine tree is over 200 years old and stands firmly in the garden of a wedding venue which used to be a private home looking out onto the Tenma River. In the fall of 1941, the master of the house asked his family to take care of his Japanese pine, located in a well-tended garden, when he left to fight in the war. That request became his last words to his family, and the garden passed into the hands of his young son, and then to his children, across the generations. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Located 1,900 meters from the hypocenter, the house was spared from the blast winds; however, it wasn’t spared from the ensuing fire that spread from a neighboring building. Although the house burned, the Japanese black pine managed to survive, becoming something of a guardian spirit to the house and family. In 2022, the land that the house was located on became a wedding venue under the condition that the Japanese black pine be preserved and displayed. It was then that the tree was registered by the City of Hiroshima as an official hibaku tree that survived the bombing. The tree that watched over its family through the ages now watches over the happiness of all who visit.