Kleingarten

Japanese: Kleingarten
Kleingarten

…In recent years, their productive role has diminished, and they have become important urban green spaces in Western Europe as places of health and recreation for city residents. In the UK, they are called allotments (allotment gardens), and in Germany, Kleingarten. In Japan, in the 1930s, Oizumi Community Gardens, Hazawa Park Subdivision Seed Garden, and Johoku Park Farm in Osaka were established as part of a home gardening movement using fallow land, but they disappeared after the war as food conditions improved and vacant land decreased.

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Kleingarten" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近年は生産的役割が薄くなり,都市住民のための保健,レクリエーションの場として西ヨーロッパでは重要な都市緑地の一つとなっている。イギリスにおいてはアロットメントallotment (allotment garden),ドイツではクラインガルテンKleingartenといわれている。日本においては1930年代に休閑地利用の自家菜園運動として,東京では大泉市民農園,羽沢(はざわ)公園分区種芸園,大阪では城北公園農園などが設けられたが戦後の食糧事情の改善,空地の減少とともに消滅していった。…

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