著者

後々田 寿徳 ゴゴタ ヒサノリ GOGOTA Hisanori

出版者

東北芸術工科大学

雑誌

東北芸術工科大学紀要

巻号頁・発行日

no.16, pp.101-77, 2009-03

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Osaka Museums Park was established in 1875 and became in the middle of the Meiji era a museum complex to which the museum, the merchandise sample and commercial showroom, the botanical garden and the zoo, etc. were attached. The comprehensive function was gradually lost since the latter term of the Meiji era. The turning point might be an installation of the Osaka Commercial Museum in 1890. As a result, Osaka Museums Park developed its entertaining and educational characteristic. On the other hand, it was excluded from the part of the heavy industry and the international trade promotion at the latter term of the Meiji era. Although Osaka Museums Park gradually became the remains of former times, it was continued to be loved by many citizens in the end of the Meiji era as a traditional and conservative place of amusement since the early modern age. Osaka Museums Park sees its end in social functioning because of the establishment of the Osaka Municipal Museum and the Osaka Municipal Zoo in 1915 and of the opening of the new Osaka Commercial Museum in 1917. The existence of the Osaka Museums Park was gradually passed into oblivion. A part of the Osaka Museums Park was left as a place to relax by ardent fans, but it was eliminated in the early part of the Showa era. It seems that the collection kept in four storages, was almost reduced to dust by Great Osaka Air Raids in 1945. Osaka Museums Park left behind by the modernization, had nothing to do with national policy like encouragement of new industry or wealth and military strength and became paradise open to citizens, being different from capitalistic and commercial entertainment. The period of end to the Osaka Museums Park marks an age from national mobilization to militarism through the Showa Depression.