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Created page with "*''Established: 1798'' *''Defunct: c. 1868'' *''Other Names'': 綿羊屋敷 ''(men'yô yashiki)'' *''Japanese'': 巣鴨薬園 ''(Sugamo yakuen)'' The Sugamo yakuen wa..."
*''Established: [[1798]]''
*''Defunct: c. [[1868]]''
*''Other Names'': 綿羊屋敷 ''(men'yô yashiki)''
*''Japanese'': 巣鴨薬園 ''(Sugamo yakuen)''
The Sugamo yakuen was a garden for growing medicinal plants, maintained within the grounds of the [[Tsu han]] mansion in [[Edo]], in what is today the Sugamo area of Tokyo. It covered an area of roughly 12,000 ''[[tsubo]]'' (40,000 sq meters).
In [[1769]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] entrusted Ina Hanzaemon with overseeing the area as shogunate forest. In [[1798]], it became a medicinal plants garden managed by Shibue Chôhaku ([[1760]]-[[1830]]), who worked for the shogunate. Such medicinal gardens have a long history in Japan, stretching back to the early 8th century, but the Tokugawa shogunate actively pushed for the development of a system of such gardens, establishing ones in Koishikawa, Komaba, and elsewhere in and around Edo. [[Owari han|Owari]], [[Aizu han|Aizu]], [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]], [[Kumamoto han|Kumamoto]], and [[Choshu han|Chôshû domains]], among others, also established medicinal gardens within the grounds of their Edo mansions.
Chôhaku is said to have been the first to farm [[sheep]] in Japan, beginning in [[1817]]; it is from this that the garden came to also be known as ''men'yô yashiki'', or "sheep mansion."
After the [[Meiji Restoration]], the area ceased to be actively used as a medicinal plants garden, and became someone's private property for a time. In 1937, however, an official city market (run by Tokyo City) was established there, and the site remains today home to the Toshima Market location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15033369048/sizes/l/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]
*''Defunct: c. [[1868]]''
*''Other Names'': 綿羊屋敷 ''(men'yô yashiki)''
*''Japanese'': 巣鴨薬園 ''(Sugamo yakuen)''
The Sugamo yakuen was a garden for growing medicinal plants, maintained within the grounds of the [[Tsu han]] mansion in [[Edo]], in what is today the Sugamo area of Tokyo. It covered an area of roughly 12,000 ''[[tsubo]]'' (40,000 sq meters).
In [[1769]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] entrusted Ina Hanzaemon with overseeing the area as shogunate forest. In [[1798]], it became a medicinal plants garden managed by Shibue Chôhaku ([[1760]]-[[1830]]), who worked for the shogunate. Such medicinal gardens have a long history in Japan, stretching back to the early 8th century, but the Tokugawa shogunate actively pushed for the development of a system of such gardens, establishing ones in Koishikawa, Komaba, and elsewhere in and around Edo. [[Owari han|Owari]], [[Aizu han|Aizu]], [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]], [[Kumamoto han|Kumamoto]], and [[Choshu han|Chôshû domains]], among others, also established medicinal gardens within the grounds of their Edo mansions.
Chôhaku is said to have been the first to farm [[sheep]] in Japan, beginning in [[1817]]; it is from this that the garden came to also be known as ''men'yô yashiki'', or "sheep mansion."
After the [[Meiji Restoration]], the area ceased to be actively used as a medicinal plants garden, and became someone's private property for a time. In 1937, however, an official city market (run by Tokyo City) was established there, and the site remains today home to the Toshima Market location of the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market.
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==References==
*Plaques on-site.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/15033369048/sizes/l/]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Historic Buildings]]