Inokashira Park
The Inokashira Park ( Japanese 井 の 頭 恩賜 庭園 , Inokashira onshi kōen , German "Imperial Gift Inokashira Park") is a park in Musashino and Mitaka in the vicinity of Tokyo .
history
This park was created in 1913 as the first park outside the city. After a planned design, it was opened four years later. It surrounds the Inokashira pond, which, as a source area, supplied Edo / Tokyo with water through the Kanda-jōsui canal until 1898. On the western edge, the Tamagawa-jōsui canal, which was created later, touches the park. The elongated pond surrounded by trees is followed by other green areas: The Inokashira Park Zoo or Inokashira Shizen Bunkaen ( 井 の 頭 自然 文化 園 , "Inokashira Nature and Culture Park") in the west, Nishien ( 西 園 , "West Park") in the south and Dai-ni-kōen ( 第二 公園 , "2nd Park") west of the Tamagawa-jōsui Canal. They also contain sports facilities.
The pond is said to have got its name - translated as "main / head source pond" - from the Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu , but there are also other explanations. The pond has seven bubbling springs. The name of a source on the edge, Ocha-no-mizu ( お 茶 の 水 , "tea water"), comes from a visit to Tokugawa Ieyasu , who had water taken there for his tea.
The pond is lined with 400 cherry trees that spread their branches over the water. The petals swirl across the pond like a snowdrift. A memorial stone commemorates Noguchi Ujō ( 野 口 雨 情 ; 1882–1945), who is known for his nature-loving poetry.
There is a hill Gotenyama ( 御 殿 山 , "Residence Mountain ") west of the Inokashira pond , the name of which is traced back to Iemitsu, who is said to have hunted falcons from there. The hill was populated as early as the Jōmon period . On the south-eastern slope there are plum trees, which are known for their very early flowering. Almost a hundred additional trees were planted in the 1970s.
There is a Benzaiten shrine by the pond , which Utagawa Hiroshige depicted in winter as a sheet of a series of three “Snow, Moon and Flowers” ( 雪 月 花 ). Hiroshige later took up the motif again in his 100 Views of Edo . There is also an Inari shrine on the opposite bank .
Today the Inokashira Park is one of the prefecture-operated parks ( toritsu kōen ) of the Tokyo prefecture , which on behalf of the prefecture administration by the Tōkyō-to kōen kyōkai ( 東京 都 公園 協会 , "Park Society of the Tokyo Prefecture", English Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association ) operate.
Access
The park can be reached on the JR Chūō Main Line , Kichijōji Station, or the Keiō Inokashira Line , Inokashira Station.
Characteristics
- Carrier: Tokyo Prefecture.
- Opening: May 1, 1917
- Area: 363,772.99 m², including 10,000 m² of lawn
- Tree population: 11,060 trees (1995)
- Bush population: 12,800 m² of bush land
- Facilities: sports field, tennis courts, swimming pool, restaurant, kiosk
- Boats can be rented
Attractions
The park is used as a place for artists, musicians and events. In the park there is a temple dedicated to the goddess Benzaiten . There is also a zoo in the park, which opened on May 17, 1941. In the south end of the park is the Ghibli Museum , which is dedicated to the studio Ghibli anime production studio and animation series productions in general.
literature
- Tōkyō-to (ed.): Inkokashira onshi kōen , in: Toritsu kōen gaido, 1995.
Web links
- Tōkyō-to kōen kyōkai (Japanese, English: Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association )
- The building department prefecture administrative Tokyo (Engl. Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Bureau of Construction ): Map of the park (English, Japanese)
- Inokashira Park Zoo information and map
Coordinates: 35 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N , 139 ° 34 ′ 30 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ 井 の 頭 自然 文化 園 の 歴 史 ｜ 井 の 頭 自然 文化 園 公式 サ イ ト - 東京 ズ ー ネ ッ ト. Retrieved February 10, 2020 .