At the Chuo Ward Folk Tenmonkan (Time Dome Akashi), the 4th mini-panel exhibition "Reconstruction Elementary School and Elementary Park Past and Present" by supporters of the building began on August 1 (Saturday). Panels show all of the reconstruction elementary schools and elementary parks in Chuo-ku that were destroyed and rebuilt in the Great Kanto Earthquake on September 1, 1923 (1923). The exhibition will be open until September 27 (Sun), and the mini panel exhibition will be free to view. Click here.>>
Reconstruction Elementary School is a three-story reinforced concrete building that was rebuilt from an elementary school damaged by the Great Kanto Earthquake, and refers to 117 of the 196 elementary schools in Tokyo that were destroyed. In Chuo-ku, a total of 25 schools, including 12 former Nihonbashi-ku and 13 former Kyobashi-ku, were reconstructed elementary schools.
The construction was led by Riki Sano, who is said to be the "father of seismic structure theory." After the earthquake, he became Director of the Tokyo City Construction Bureau, promoted rational, functionalistic, standardized and standardized school construction based on "Reconstruction is from Education", and completed many elementary schools in a short period of time.
As of 1992 after the Great Kanto Earthquake, there are seven reconstruction elementary schools in the ward, of which four are still used as elementary schools. There is also a school building selected by Historic buildings, Tokyo (the leaflet photo shows Tokiwa Elementary School at that time).
At the same time, as an advanced reconstruction project, Tokyo City has set up 52 small parks on the site adjacent to the reconstruction elementary school. In addition to contributing to the health and physical education of schoolchildren, it also served as a park for citizen walks, fire prevention and evacuation site. Even now, there are still 10 reconstruction small parks in Chuo-ku, playing a role in children's parks and local community activities. @ Akira Makibuchi
