playground

... In the Meiji period, Japan, which had adopted the Western education system, encountered this development in Western physical education and began to set up sports facilities following the Western model. At first, sports grounds were called amusement parks or playgrounds, which were Japanese translations of playgrounds and Spielplatz, but they eventually came to be used interchangeably with gymnastics grounds (Turnplatz). When the Gymnastics Training School was established in 1878 (Meiji 11) and the first full-time gymnastics teachers in Japan were trained there, playgrounds gradually came to be called gymnastics grounds. ...

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…　西欧の教育制度を導入した明治期の日本は，このように進展した欧米の体育と出会い，運動の施設も欧米に倣って設置するようになった。その当初，運動場はplaygroundやSpielplatzの邦訳語として遊園とか遊戯場とか呼ばれていたが，やがて体操場Turnplatzと併用されるようになる。1878年(明治11)に体操伝習所が設立され，日本で最初の体操専任教師が養成されるようになると，遊戯場は次第に体操場と呼ばれるようになっていく。…

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