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長岡安平
A landscape designer active from the Meiji to the Taisho era and a pioneer of modern parks in Japan. He designed Iwate Park on the neglected site of Morioka Castle.
After its buildings were torn down in the Meiji era, the Morioka Castle site lay neglected until Iwate Prefecture began turning it into a park in 1906. Designed by Nagaoka Yasuhei, it opened that year as Iwate Park, and at its centenary in 2006 it was nicknamed Morioka Castle Ruins Park.
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Morioka, Iwate
盛岡城
Almost no buildings survive, yet the stone walls alone tell 90 years of castle building, from rough natural stones laid around 1600 to neatly squared blocks dated 1686, all within one castle.
designed Iwate Park on the castle siteRecord source: article
