The castle's other name became the park's name. Maruoka castle is also called Kasumigajo, the castle of haze, and the grounds around it are Kasumigajo Park. The castle was built in 1576 by Shibata Katsutoyo, a nephew of Shibata Katsuie, and the park now covers 2.11 hectares with about four hundred Somei-yoshino in it.

Four hundred is not a large number by the standards of this list. The park is small, though, and that turns out to be the point.

In a big site the trees and the building are separate subjects, photographed from a distance that keeps them apart. Here there is no such distance available.

During the festival roughly three hundred paper lanterns are lit, with a hundred and sixty standing lamps below them, which is more than one light for every two trees. After dark the outline of the keep stops being a hard edge: it sits inside the flowers and the lamplight with nothing separating the three, and the shape you are looking at is difficult to say where it ends. Whatever the second name originally described, that is what it looks like now. The timing given on this page is not the city's; it comes from the weather record for Fukui.