Tama cemetery
The Tama Cemetery ( Japanese 多 摩 霊 園 , Tama Reien ) is located in Fuchū ( Tokyo Prefecture ). It is the largest cemetery in the prefecture and the first in Japan to be set up as a park.
Overview
The Tama Cemetery was established in 1923 when the city's population was growing rapidly. The largest east-west extension is around 1300 m, the north-south extension 1100 m. The total area is 1,280,237 m². The cemetery is divided into 26 sections and is criss-crossed by avenues with bus stops.
The cemetery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. In summer the main gate in the southeast and the Koganeitor in the northwest is open until 6:30 p.m.
Graves of famous people
- Asanuma Inejirō (1898-1960), Japanese politician
- Den Kenjirō (1855-1930), Japanese civil servant and politician
- Fukudome Shigeru (1891–1971), Japanese admiral
- Hayashi Senjūrō (1876–1943), General of the Imperial Japanese Army, politician and the 33rd Prime Minister of Japan
- Honjō Shigeru (1876–1945), General of the Imperial Japanese Army
- Inoue Masakichi (1886–1975), Lieutenant General in the Imperial Japanese Army
- Inoue Shigeyoshi (1889–1975), Japanese admiral
- Iwaya Sazanami (1870-1933), Japanese author
- Kinoshita Mokutarō (1885-1945), Japanese writer, doctor and leprosy researcher
- Kishida Ryūsei (1891–1929), Japanese painter
- Koga Mineichi (1885–1944), Japanese Grand Admiral (Gensui) and commander of the combined fleet
- Kurita Takeo (1889–1977), Vice Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- Minobe Tatsukichi (1873–1948), Japanese constitutional lawyer and specialist in administrative law
- Yukio Mishima (1925-1970), Japanese writer, poet, director and nationalist political activist
- Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933), Japanese agronomist, philosopher, educator, author and international political activist
- Okada Keisuke (1868–1952), Japanese admiral in the Imperial Navy
- Okamoto Tarō (1911–1996), Japanese artist
- Ōuchi Hyōei (1888–1980), Japanese economist and Marxist
- Shiga Yoshio (1901-1989), Japanese Marxist politician
- Richard Sorge (1895–1944), German communist, writer and undercover worker for the Soviet military intelligence service
- Sakurai Shōzō (1889–1985), Japanese general
- Sugiyama Hajime (1880–1945), Gensui of the Imperial Japanese Army and multiple army minister
- Takahashi Korekiyo (1854–1936) Japanese politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Japan
- Tanaka Giichi (1863–1929), Japanese general, politician and 26th Prime Minister of Japan
- Tanaka Tatsuo (1910–1998), Japanese nobleman and politician
- Taniguchi Masaharu (1893–1985), Japanese author, new spiritist and founder of the new religious movement Seichō-no-Ie
- Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934), Japanese admiral
- Tokonami Takejirō (1867-1935), Japanese politician
- Uchimura Kanzō (1861-1930), Japanese Protestant Christian, columnist and pacifist
- Ugaki Kazushige (1868–1956), Japanese general
- Yamamoto Isoroku (1884–1943), Japanese admiral
- Yamamuro Gumpei (1872–1940), founder of the Salvation Army in Japan
- Yosano Akiko (1878–1942), Japanese poet
- Yosano Tekkan (1873-1935), Japanese writer
- Yoshino Sakuzō (1878–1933), Japanese political scientist, historian and author
literature
- Tokyo-to rekishi kyoiku kenkyukai (ed.): Tama reien . In: Tokyo-to no rekishi sampo (ge). Yamakawa Shuppan, 2005. ISBN 978-4-634-24813-7 .
See also
Web links
Commons : Tama Cemetery - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′ 7 ″ N , 139 ° 30 ′ 35 ″ E