Kitanomaru Park
The kitanomaru park ( Jap. 北の丸公園 , Kitanomaru kōen ) is a public park that the area of the northern district of Edo Castle ( 北の丸 , kita-no-maru ), in what is now the district Chiyoda of Tokyo includes. The Kōkyo Higashi-gyoen Park is located in the former eastern district .
Kitanomaru Park also forms its own district with the postal code 102-0091.
history
Edo Castle was protected in the north by the "northern bailey" Kitanomaru, which was reached through a high gate and a drawbridge over a moat. From the Kitanomaru one then got into the city through a large gate system, the Tayasu-mon , and a dam over the deeply cut “inner ditch”, west of the dam Chidori-ga-fuchi and east of Ushi-ga-fuchi and Shimizu-bori called. The banks of the trenches are now famous for their cherry blossom. Another gate, the Shimisu-mon , stands on the eastern flank of the Kitanomaru.
The buildings there were destroyed in the Meireki fire and the area was now used for military purposes, including a track for training horses. In the middle Edo period, the Kitanomaru was inhabited by two of the three later branch families of the Tokugawa, called Gosankyō , namely by Shimizu and Tayasu. After the Meiji restoration , the barracks of the Imperial Guard were built in Kitanomaru .
As part of the 1964 Olympic Games , a large octagonal sports hall for traditional Nippon Budōkan sports was built, but it is also used for concerts. A science museum was also built there, giving children and young people access to science and technology. Outside the green spaces, but still part of the park, there is the National Museum of Modern Art , to which the arts and crafts museum in the brick building of the headquarters of the former Imperial Guard belongs. Next to the arts and crafts museum is an equestrian statue of Prince Kitashirakawa (1847–1895), and another monument in the park commemorates the post-war Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida .
The park, like the other imperial parks, is subordinate to the Ministry of the Environment .
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Remarks
- ↑ The third family, Hitotsubashi, got their seat just outside the Kitanomaru.
- ↑ Kitashirakawa, who was initially on the Tokugawa side, made a career in the Japanese army after his stay in Berlin in the 1870s.
literature
- Nozawa, N. (Ed.): Tokyo-to no rekishi sanpo (jo). Tokyo Yamakawa Shuppansha 2000, ISBN 4-634-29130-4 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 41 ′ 31 ″ N , 139 ° 45 ′ 6 ″ E