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<\/a>Plum blossom trees announcing spring\u2019s arrival<\/p><\/div>\n
There are a number of parks around Waseda University but have you heard of Kansen-en Park? This small park was originally the residence of Tokugawa Gosankyo of the Shimizu family, one of the most significant families of the Edo era. Even now, remnants of that era can still be felt when strolling around the park.<\/p>\n
The park is called Kansen-en (literally \u201csweet spring garden\u201d) because the spring water in the garden is said to have been sweet and suitable for tea. The park became the residence of the Souma Shishaku family in the Meiji era but was soon acquired by Waseda University in 1880. After the war, the park became a public Tokyo property and eventually became part of the Shinjuku ward.<\/p>\n
The park is known as a great place to experience the change in seasons. We encourage everyone to visit the park and experience it for themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Photos taken from around Waseda campus on February 28, 2015 There are a number of parks around Waseda Universi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-topic"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/top\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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