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*''Japanese'': [[上野]]公園 ''(Ueno kouen)''
*''Japanese'': [[上野]]公園 ''(Ueno kouen)''
Ueno Park is a major public park in [[Tokyo]]. Located on the former grounds of the [[Tokugawa clan]] patron temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]], it served as a major site of national ceremonies, expositions, and events in the [[Meiji period]], and is today home to a number of major national institutions, including the [[Tokyo National Museum]], Ueno Zoo, [[Tokyo University of the Arts]], Museum of Western Art, and so forth.
Ueno Park is a major public park in [[Tokyo]], and the first public park in Japan. Located on the former grounds of the [[Tokugawa clan]] patron temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]], it served as a major site of national ceremonies, expositions, and events in the [[Meiji period]], and is today home to a number of major national institutions, including the [[Tokyo National Museum]], Ueno Zoo, [[Tokyo University of the Arts]], Museum of Western Art, and so forth.
Other notable sights in the park include a statue of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] designed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]] and unveiled in [[1898]], and a gravesite for the [[Shogitai|Shôgitai]], established in [[1869]] and expanded in [[1874]].
Kan'ei-ji, albeit considerably shrunken, continues to stand to one side of the park; [[Ueno Toshogu|Ueno Tôshôgû]], an [[Inari]] shrine, and several other [[Shinto shrines]] can also be found in the park. Other notable sights in the park include a statue of [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] designed by [[Takamura Koun|Takamura Kôun]] and unveiled in [[1898]], and a gravesite for the [[Shogitai|Shôgitai]], established in [[1869]] and expanded in [[1874]].
==History==
==History==
A grand reception for [[Ulysses S. Grant]], held in [[1879]], was one of the first major public events held in the park. After that, it became the site for a number of major expositions and events, including the first modern museum-style exhibition of the works of [[Hokusai]], in 1900,
Following the destruction of Kan'ei-ji in the [[1868]] [[battle of Ueno]], there were proposals to build a hospital on the temple's former grounds. However, Dutch physician [[A.F. Bauduin]] advocated preserving the site for its natural beauty, and so Ueno Park was established as Japan's first public park in [[1873]], while Kan'ei-ji was restored on a much shrunken grounds nearby.<ref>Plaque on bust of Bauduin in Ueno Park.</ref>
A grand reception for [[Ulysses S. Grant]], held in [[1879]], was one of the first major public events held in the park. After that, it became the site for a number of major expositions and events, including the [[Third Domestic Industrial Exposition]], held there in [[1890]], the first modern museum-style exhibition of the works of [[Hokusai]], in 1900, and the first [[Bunten]] (]]Ministry of Education]] Arts Salon) in [[1907]].
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==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]
[[Category:Geographic Locations]]