National Park for Nature Studies
The National Park for Nature Studies ( Japanese 国立 科学 博物館 附属 自然 教育 園 Kokuritsu kagaku hakubutsukan fuzoku shizen kyōikuen , German 'Nature Study Park of the National Museum of Natural Sciences ' ) preserves a remnant of the original Musashino landscape in the middle of Tokyo in the Minato district .
The park has been protected as a natural monument and historical site since April 12, 1949 under the name Kyū Shirogane goryōchi ( 旧 白金 御 料 地 , "old Shirogane crown land ") .
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A clan ruled here between 1400 and 1500 who built a fortified residence. It is not known exactly who this was, but the field name Shirogane , which has been attested since 1559, could indicate the owner. But it could also have been Ōta Dōkan's grandson. After the fall of the clan, the complex fell into disrepair and overgrown, but remnants of the ramparts have been preserved. At the beginning of the Edo period , the area came to the Zōjō-ji , in 1664 Matsudaira Yorishige, a brother of Tokugawa Mitsukuni and head of Takamatsu-han , got it as a secondary residence. Some pines are said to come from that time.
In the Meiji and Taishō periods until 1917, there were powder magazines for the military. Then the area came to the Imperial Court Office , called Shirogane Go-Ryōchi, whereby it could be developed back into a forest area with bodies of water. However, part of the site was used in 1933 for the construction of a princely palace, which with its garden is now open to the public as the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum .
In 1949 the area was subordinated to the Monbushō , which opened the park to the public as a national park for nature studies in November of that year. Since 1962 the park has been managed by the National Museum of Natural Sciences . The park, with its old trees, along with the fruit-bearing trees and waters, is a bird's paradise - mandarin ducks are common, but so are kingfishers .
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- Leaflet of the park
Individual evidence
- ↑ 旧 白金 御 料 地 . In: 国 指定 文化 財 等 デ ー タ ベ ー ス (cultural monuments database). Bunka-chō , accessed October 19, 2013 (Japanese).
Web links
- National Park for Nature Studies (Japanese)
Coordinates: 35 ° 38 ′ 19 ″ N , 139 ° 43 ′ 10 ″ E