Ueno-Park
The Ueno Park (Jap.上 野 公园, Ueno Kōen ) is a sprawling public park, which is located in Tokyo's district Taitō. The park includes the site of the former temple Kan'ei -ji (寛 永 寺), which was closely connected to the Tokugawa Shoguns. Who built the temple on a hill in reference to the Temple Mount Hieizan in the northeast of Kyoto as a symbolic protection of Edo Castle. The old name of the hill was Shinobu -ga -oka (忍ヶ岡).
Genesis
After the temple was largely destroyed in 1868 during the Boshin War, decided in 1873 the government to build on the site of a park, which could then be opened in 1876. 1882, the National Museum and the zoo was opened. 1890, the park under the management of the Imperial Hofamtes, which left him in 1924 on behalf of the Taishō Tennō the city of Tokyo. The official name of the park is Ueno Onshi therefore Kōen (上 野 恩赐 公园), which literally means " Ueno Imperial Gift Park " means.
Attractions
From the Edo period, some buildings have been preserved. In the first place should be mentioned the five-story pagoda of Kan'ei -ji and the Ueno Toshogu. Next there is the location in Shinobazu Pond Benzaiten shrine, the Gojo - Tenjinja (五条 天神 社) with its Inari fox statues in an artificial grotto. A tiny, hillside location, Kiyomizu Kannon - dō is reminiscent of her role model, the Kiyomizu -dera in Kyoto. On the grounds there is also a ( restored ) bell tower whose bell in the Edo period indicated the time. She is immortalized in a Haiku by Basho, in German as:
「花 の 雲鐘 は 上野 か 浅草 か」
" Hana no kumo / kane wa ka Ueno / Asakusa ka"
" A cloud of flowers / The bell is 's Ueno / Asakusa or even? " [Note 1]
From the Meiji period dates the oldest building (1881 ) of the National Museum, the Imperial Library [ Note 2] and the restored in recent years Conservatory.
Later this came other buildings of the National Museum, the National Museum of Natural Sciences, which based on plans by Le Corbusier, was opened in 1959 the National Museum of Western Art, the Municipal Museum of Art, and in 1961 built by Maekawa Tōkyō Bunka Kaikan with its halls ( Main Hall 2303 seats, Small Hall 649 seats), in which held concerts and theater performances. The University of the Arts is also located in the Ueno Hill. There is also the Kuroda Kinen - dō, reminiscent of the painter Kuroda Seiki is located.
A statue that Saigo Takamori shows how walking his dog, reminiscent of the influential samurai and leader of the Satsuma Rebellion of 1877, this was pardoned posthumously. Just above, there is a monument that commemorates the Shōgitai, the Tokugawa - loyal army, which was destroyed in 1868 during the bombardment of Kan'ei -ji.
In the north of the park is the Ueno Zoo.
The Ueno Park with its museums is a popular tourist destination and one of the three or four major places within Tokyo, where the Hanami, the cherry blossom short, is celebrated in a social gathering among the flowering trees.
The park and its surroundings play a significant role in Japanese poetry, including the novel Gan ( Eng.: The wild goose ) of Mori Ogai.