The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Ueno Park Historical Circuit
Every time I walk through the main gate I think: this park exists because a government leveled a temple in the first month of a new era. The cherry blossoms are famous.
Ueno Park was built on the site of Kan'ei-ji, the Tokugawa funerary temple complex. Most of it was destroyed in the 1868 Battle of Ueno. The park is a monument to that defeat.
— Hana, The Historian
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