Komaba Park

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Western style Maeda residence
Komaba Park (see text)

Komaba Park ( Japanese 駒 場 公園 , Komaba kōen ) is a public park in the Komaba District, Meguro District ( Tokyo ), Japan.

The park

The wealthy royal Maeda family from Kanazawa owned an extensive residence in Tokyo in the Hongo district, which fell to the state after the Meiji Restoration . This is where the University of Tokyo settled , initially leaving a corner part to the Maeda. At the end of the Taishō period , there was an exchange: the university received the property in Hongo, which in return ceded part of their property there to the Maeda in the Komaba district.

1929 had the 16th boss of the house, Prince Maeda Toshinari (前 田 利 為; 1885-1942) build a western-style residence (旧 前 田 侯爵 洋 館, Kyu Maeda kōshaku yōkan; 1) there. The building was designed on the recommendation of the professor of architecture at the University of Tokyo, Tsukamoto Yasushi (塚 本 靖; 1869-1937), by Takahashi Teitarō (高橋 貞 太郎; 1892-1970) in the Tudor style. It has three floors and a basement.

After the Pacific War , General Ridgway used the residence for a while during the American occupation. It then came to the City of Tokyo in 1964, which in 1975 passed it on to the Meguro District for administration. From 1967 to 2002 the building was used as the "Museum of Spiritual Science of the Tokyo Prefecture" (東京 都 近代 文学 博物館, Tōkyōto kindaibungaku hakubutsukan), the holdings were passed on to other institutions. Today the building can be visited on weekends and on public holidays. Behind the residence is the smaller Maeda house (和 館, Wakan; 2) built in 1930 in the traditional Japanese style (書院 造, Shoin-tsukuri), which can be visited.

In the northeast corner of the park is the "Institute for Contemporary Literature" (日本 近代 文学 館, Nihon kindai bungaku-kan; 3), which was established in 1967 in the form of a foundation. The foundation, established at the suggestion of the writer Takami Jun and others, collects, sifts through and preserves materials on contemporary writers. Just outside the park is the Museum of Japanese Folk Art [4].

photos

  • Entrance to the park

  • Entrance to the residence

  • Back of the residence

  • Gateway to the Wakan

  • Entrance to the Wakan

  • View from the wakan

Characteristics

  • Operator: Meguro district
  • Opening: April 1, 1975
  • Size: 40,396.47 m²

literature

  • Tokyo-to rekishi kyoiku kenkyukai (ed.): Komaba koen . In: Tokyo-to no rekishi sampo (chu). Yamakawa Shuppan, 2005. ISBN 978-4-634-24713-0 . P. 275.

Web links

Commons : Komaba Park  - Collection of Images

Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 44 ″  N , 139 ° 40 ′ 48 ″  E