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Around the year [[1500]], King [[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]] had a great many [[pine]] trees planted along the main road from Shuri to Naha. A stele erected there in [[1501]] by Shûkei, abbot of [[Enkaku-ji (Okinawa)|Enkaku-ji]], indicates that this was done to ensure a source of lumber for upkeep and repairs of that temple, established the previous decade.<ref>The stele is known alternately as Sashikaeshi matsuo no himon サシカヘシ松尾之碑文 and Ufudômô no himon 大道毛之碑文. Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 139.</ref> The stele further cautions against the crime of doing anything to disturb this most important lumber supply.<ref>Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', 139.</ref> The area came to be known as Ufudô Matsubara 大道松原 ([[Okinawan language|O]]: ''Ufudô machibara''; roughly, "field of pines at the great road"), and is mentioned in the [[Sanshin#musical_genres|classical Okinawan song]] ''[[Nubui kuduchi]]'', which narrates the journey envoys to [[Kagoshima]] traveled, starting from Shuri and passing through Ufudô Matsubara, [[Azato Hachimangu|Azato Hachimangû]], and [[Sogenji|Sôgenji]] on the way to the harbor. The neighborhood today, to the east of Azato Station, is known as Daidô, a standard Japanese reading of the phrase ''Ufudô'' ("great road"). Few pines remain.

Around the year [[1500]], King [[Sho Shin|Shô Shin]] had a great many [[pine]] trees planted along the main road from Shuri to Naha. A stele erected there in [[1501]] by Shûkei, abbot of [[Enkaku-ji (Okinawa)|Enkaku-ji]], indicates that this was done to ensure a source of lumber for upkeep and repairs of that temple, established the previous decade.<ref>The stele is known alternately as Sashikaeshi matsuo no himon サシカヘシ松尾之碑文 and Ufudômô no himon 大道毛之碑文. Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', University of Hawaii Press (2019), 139.</ref> The stele further cautions against the crime of doing anything to disturb this most important lumber supply.<ref>Smits, ''Maritime Ryukyu'', 139.</ref> The area came to be known as Ufudô Matsubara 大道松原 ([[Okinawan language|O]]: ''Ufudô machibara''; roughly, "field of pines at the great road"), and is mentioned in the [[Sanshin#musical_genres|classical Okinawan song]] ''[[Nubui kuduchi]]'', which narrates the journey envoys to [[Kagoshima]] traveled, starting from Shuri and passing through Ufudô Matsubara, [[Azato Hachimangu|Azato Hachimangû]], and [[Sogenji|Sôgenji]] on the way to the harbor. The neighborhood today, to the east of Azato Station, is known as Daidô, a standard Japanese reading of the phrase ''Ufudô'' ("great road"). Few pines remain.

Yogi Park, up until 2018 the home of the [[Okinawa Prefectural Library]] and still today the location of the Naha City Public Library, is located just south of the Makishi Market / Heiwa-dôri shopping arcade district, on the former site of an agricultural research station. The station was established in [[1881]] on a space of some 7,900 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' in what was then Kohagura village, Mawashi ''[[magiri]]''; [[sugar]] cane, rice, wheat, [[indigo]], palm trees, [[turmeric]], and other crops were grown there experimentally, and various projects researching innovations into sugar processing and production were conducted there. Over the course of the 1910s-20s, various aspects of the research station were broken off and relocated to sites elsewhere on the island, including in [[Nishihara]], [[Nago]], and [[Futenma]]. In 1928, Okinawa prefecture purchased roughly 105,000 ''tsubo'' in the Yogi neighborhood of Mawashi village and established a main (central) research station there. The station was destroyed in the Battle of Okinawa, but was reestablished in 1946. Sugar cane and other crops were grown, and pigs, goats, and cows raised. However, as the city grew, the station was relocated in 1961 to a site in the Sakiyama neighborhood of Shuri; its former site in Yogi was transformed into a public park, and public facilities such as a library and a hospital were built nearby.<ref>Plaque on-site in Yogi Park.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/30618603892/sizes/k/]</ref>

Yogi Park, up until 2018 the home of the [[Okinawa Prefectural Library]] and still today the location of the Naha City Public Library, is located just south of the Makishi Market / Heiwa-dôri shopping arcade district, on the former site of an agricultural research station. The station was established in [[1881]] on a space of some 7,900 ''[[Japanese Measurements|tsubo]]'' in what was then Kohagura village, Mawashi ''[[magiri]]''; [[sugar]] cane, rice, wheat, [[indigo]], palm trees, [[turmeric]], and other crops were grown there experimentally, and various projects researching innovations into sugar processing and production were conducted there. Over the course of the 1910s-20s, various aspects of the research station were broken off and relocated to sites elsewhere on the island, including in [[Nishihara]], [[Nago]], and [[Futenma]]. In 1928, Okinawa prefecture purchased roughly 105,000 ''tsubo'' in the Yogi neighborhood of Mawashi village and established a main (central) research station there. The station was destroyed in the Battle of Okinawa, but was reestablished in 1946. Sugar cane and other crops were grown, and pigs, goats, and cows raised. However, as the city grew, the station was relocated in 1961 to a site in the Sakiyama neighborhood of Shuri; its former site in Yogi was transformed into a public park, and public facilities such as a library and a hospital were built nearby.<ref>Plaque on-site in Yogi Park.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/30618603892/sizes/k/]</ref>