Komazawa

Komazawa-machi  (incorporated) 駒 沢 町
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Kanto
Prefecture :	Tokyo
Coordinates :	35 ° 38 ′  N , 139 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 35 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  N , 139 ° 40 ′ 0 ″  E
Basic data
Incorporated on:	Oct. 1, 1932
Incorporated in:	Tokyo (now Setagaya )
Surface:
Residents :	31,043 (October 1, 1930)
town hall
Address :	Komazawa Town Hall Komazawa- machi, Ebara-gun Tōkyō

Komazawa ( Jap. 駒沢町 , Komazawa- machi , before 1925 駒沢村 , Komazawa- mura ) was a district town (machi) in the district Ebara the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo in the south of the ancient province of Musashi . As part of the "Greater Tokyo" incorporation of 1932, Komazawa was incorporated into the city ​​of Tokyo and part of the Setagaya district there .

Map with the boundaries of the reformed cities and villages as well as the previous urban districts / districts of the new city of Tokyo in the Tokyo Prefecture after the Great Meiji Territorial Reform in 1889, numbered the municipalities of the Ebara district, 16 is Komazawa-mura. Adjacent communities were henceforth the -mura 17th Setagaya, 18th Tamagawa, 5th Hibusuma and 4th Meguro.

The Komazawa water towers built in 1923

As a modern community , Komazawa emerged in 1889 from the villages of Kami- ("Upper") and Shimo-Umahikizawa ("Lower Umahikizawa"; 上 ・ 下馬 引 沢 村 ), Nozawa ( 野 沢 村 ), Tsurumaki ( 弦 巻 村 ), Setagaya-Shinmachi ( 世 田 ヶ 谷 新 町 村 , Setagaya-Shinmachi-mura , "Setagaya New Town Village") and Fukasawa ( 深 沢 村 ). The Koma- ( 駒 ) in the name Komazawa comes from the Uma / Ma ( 馬 , horse) in Umahikizawa, the sawa / -zawa ( 沢 , swamp) from Nozawa and Fukasawa. Komazawa became a city in October 1925.

Before the Meiji Restoration, most of the forerunner villages belonged to the domain of the Shogun and its smaller vassals , parts of Umahikzawa and Tsurumaki were part of the Setagaya Territory, an exclave of the Principality of Hikone of the Ii (see also Setagaya (district) ). Then the area came to Shinagawa Prefecture , which was incorporated into Tokyo in 1871.

The former area of ​​the city of Komazawa extends into the following districts of Setagaya today: Shimouma ( 下馬 ), Kamiuma ( 上馬 ), Tsurumaki ( 弦 巻 ), Nozawa ( 野 沢 ), Komazawa ( 駒 沢 ), Komazawa-kōen ( 駒 沢 公園 ), Sakura -Shinmachi ( 桜 新 町 ), Shinmachi ( 新 町 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ District Setagaya: 地名 の 由来 （駒 沢 ・ 新 町 ・ 桜 新 町 ・ 深 沢） ("Origin of place names (Komazawa, Shinmachi, Sakurashinmachi, Fukasawa)")
2. ↑ National Museum of Japanese History : 旧 高 旧 領取 調帳 デ ー タ ベ ー ス (database of feudal possessions and income at the end of the shogunate [or shortly afterwards, see notes]) according to the series of publications of the same name (Kimura Motoi: 旧 高 旧 領取 調帳 , 6 vols ., Kondō Shuppansha 1969–79), search mask by province, district, village, feudal dominion, (Meji-temporal) prefecture, place name, community key