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40-516: The zoo is in Ueno Park , a large urban park that is home to museums, a small amusement park, and other attractions. The zoo is closed on Mondays (Tuesday if Monday is a holiday). The zoo started life as a menagerie attached to the National Museum of Natural History. In 1881, responsibility for this menagerie was handed to naturalist and civil servant Tanaka Yoshio , who oversaw its transition into

80-501: A game species. Its adaptability enabled it to colonize nearby areas quickly, and private game estates provided other centers of dispersion. The species is currently expanding, according to recent field surveys, now being found in the provinces of Alicante , Almería , Granada , and Murcia . The species is a potential competitor to native ungulates inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula , and has also been introduced to La Palma (in

120-463: A public zoo. The ground was originally estate of the imperial family, but was bestowed ( 恩賜 , onshi , forming the first part of the name in Japanese, untranslated officially) to the municipal government in 1924 — along with Ueno Park — on the occasion of crown prince Hirohito 's wedding. In August 1943, the administrator of Tokyo, Shigeo Ōdachi , ordered that all "wild and dangerous animals" at

160-531: A shrine to Benzaiten , goddess of fortune, modelled on Chikubu Island in Lake Biwa . The area was once full of "rendezvous teahouses", equivalent of the modern love hotel . After the Pacific War the pond was drained and used for the cultivation of cereals and subsequently there were plans to turn the site into a baseball stadium or multi-storey carpark. The lotus pond was restored in 1949, although much of it

200-509: Is a Yayoi-period burial mound on a small hill near the park's centre. For a decade until 1894 there was horse racing near Shinobazu Pond. Nowadays there is a baseball field, named in honour of poet Masaoka Shiki , fan of the sport. As well as the first art museum in Japan, the park had the first zoo , first tram , first May Day celebrations (in 1920), and staged a number of industrial expositions. Ueno Station opened nearby in 1883. After

240-528: Is a species of caprine native to rocky mountains in North Africa and parts of West Africa . While this is the only species in genus Ammotragus , six subspecies have been described. Although it is rare in its native North Africa, it has been introduced to North America , southern Europe , and elsewhere. It is also known in the Berber language as waddan or arwi , and in former French territories as

280-415: Is a small lake with an area of 16 ha , extensive lotus beds , and marshland . It provides an important wintering ground for birds. Species commonly found include the tufted duck , Eurasian wigeon , northern pintail , common pochard , little grebe , great egret , and great cormorant . The Baer's pochard , ring-necked duck , and American wigeon have also been recorded. The central island houses

320-518: Is a spacious public park in the Ueno district of Taitō , Tokyo , Japan . The park was established in 1873 on lands formerly belonging to the temple of Kan'ei-ji . Amongst the country's first public parks, it was founded following the Western example as part of the borrowing and assimilation of international practices that characterizes the early Meiji period . The home of a number of major museums, Ueno Park

360-405: Is also celebrated in spring for its cherry blossoms and hanami . In recent times the park and its attractions have drawn over ten million visitors a year, making it Japan's most popular city park. Ueno Park occupies land once belonging to Kan'ei-ji , founded in 1625 in the " demon gate ", the unlucky direction to the northeast of Edo Castle . Most of the temple buildings were destroyed in

400-570: Is available, they drink and wallow in it. Barbary sheep are crepuscular - active in the early morning and late afternoon and rest in the heat of the day. They are very agile and can achieve a standing jump over 2 metres (7 ft). They are well adapted to their habitat, which consist of steep, rocky mountains and canyons. They often flee at the first sign of danger, typically running uphill. They are extremely nomadic and travel constantly via mountain ranges. Their main predators in North Africa were

440-619: Is home to a number of museums. The very words in Japanese for museum as well as for art were coined in the Meiji period (from 1868) to capture Western concepts after the Iwakura Mission and other early visits to North America and Europe. The Tokyo National Museum was founded in 1872 after the first exhibition by the Museum Department of the new Ministry of Education . In the same year

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480-405: Is on the throat (extending down to the chest in males) with a sparse mane . Their horns have a triangular cross-section . The horns curve outward, backward, then inward, and can exceed 76 cm (30 in) in length. The horns are fairly smooth, with slight wrinkles evident at the base as the animal matures. Barbary sheep are endemic to regions of Northern Africa primarily surrounding

520-541: Is zoned to Ueno Junior High School ( 上野中学校 ), while another part (18-ban and the rest of 15-17 ban) is zoned to Shinobugaoka Junior High School ( 忍岡中学校 ). Many homeless people squat in Ueno Park. Found among the park's treelines and wooded areas, homeless camps border on the size of small villages, with an internal structure, culture, and support system. The long-term shelters are typically constructed of cardboard covered with blue tarps . The police occasionally tear down

560-628: The Barbary leopard , Barbary lion , and caracal , but now humans, feral dogs, competition due to overgrazing by domestic animals and drought threaten their populations. The binomial name Ammotragus lervia derives from the Greek ἄμμος ámmos ("sand", referring to the sand-coloured coat) and τράγος trágos ("goat"). Lervia derives from the wild sheep of northern Africa described as "lerwee" by Rev. T. Shaw in his "Travels and Observations" about parts of Barbary and Levant . The Spanish named this sheep

600-739: The Battle of Ueno in 1868 during the Boshin War , when the forces of the Tokugawa shogunate were defeated by those aiming at the restoration of imperial rule . In December of that year Ueno Hill became the property of the city of Tokyo, other than for the surviving temple buildings which include the five-storey pagoda of 1639, the Kiyomizu Kannon dō (or Shimizudō) of 1631, and approximately coeval main gate (all designated as Important Cultural Properties of Japan ). Various proposals were put forward for

640-658: The Canary Islands ), and has spread throughout the northern and central parts of the island, where it is a serious threat to endemic vegetation . The aoudad has also been introduced in Croatia several times, where there is a population in Mosor . Although the species has not yet been recorded in Australia , it is considered a pest species in Queensland with the potential to establish in

680-461: The Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, notices of missing persons were attached to the statue of Saigō Takamori . Ueno Park and its surroundings figure prominently in Japanese fiction, including The Wild Geese by Mori Ōgai . One of the lanterns that is present at the park is a stone lantern that was one of two carved in 1651 to memorialize Tokugawa Iemitsu . Both lanterns stood at the park until

720-578: The National Diet Library opened in Chiyoda in 1948 and the building now houses the International Library of Children's Literature . Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined at Ueno Tōshō-gū , dating to 1651. Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Memorial: On the right of the alley leading North to Tokugawa Ieyasu Tōshō-gū shrine is a grey stone memorial with a permanently burning flame in memory of

760-551: The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki of August 1945 at the end of World War II . This Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki memorial was initiated in Hiroshima shortly after the nuclear bombings by Mr. Tatsuo Yamamoto (1916–2004), from the town of Hoshino. This flame was later merged with a flame started in Nagasaki. In 1968 members of the Tokyo's Shitamachi People Association put forward

800-429: The mouflon . Barbary sheep stand 75 to 110 cm (2 ft 6 in to 3 ft 7 in) tall at the shoulder, with a length around 1.5 m (5 ft), and weigh 30 to 145 kg (66 to 320 lb). They are sandy-brown, darkening with age, with a slightly lighter underbelly and a darker line along the back. Upper parts and the outer parts of the legs are a uniform reddish- or grayish-brown. Some shaggy hair

840-448: The A-bomb flame, convinced that this monument will contribute to strengthening the worldwide people's movement to abolish nuclear weapons and achieve peace, which is the most urgent task for the people across the borders”. Gojōten Jinja is dedicated to scholar Sugawara no Michizane , while neighbouring Hanazono Inari Jinja has red-bibbed Inari fox statues in an atmospheric grotto. There

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880-707: The Ministry of Education Museum opened, now the National Museum of Nature and Science . The National Museum of Western Art was founded in 1959 based on the collection of the industrialist (Kawasaki group) Matsukata Kōjirō ; the collection was left in storage in France by Matsukata and it was returned by the French government in 1959 after the Treaty of San Francisco . The building is by Le Corbusier who used it to express his concept of

920-739: The Museum of Unlimited Growth, based on an expanding spiral. It has been nominated for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List . Other museums include the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , dating back to 1926, and Shitamachi Museum of 1980, which is dedicated to the culture of the " Low City ". The park was also chosen as home for the Japan Academy (1879), Tokyo School of Fine Arts (1889), and Tokyo School of Music (1890). The first western-style concert hall in

960-635: The animals. The zoo is home to more than 2,600 individuals representing over 500 species. After the death of giant panda Ling Ling in 2008, Ueno Zoo was without a member of this species for the first time since 1972. Two new giant pandas arrived from the Chinese Wolong Nature Reserve in February 2011. The male panda, Billy (比力 ビーリー) was renamed in Ueno to Līlī (力力 リーリー) to emphasize his playful vitality. The female's name Siennyu (仙女 シィエンニュ ‘Fairy’)

1000-665: The barren center of the Sahara Desert . Countries and territories where aoudad may be found include Algeria , Chad (north), Egypt , Libya , Mali (north), Mauritania , Morocco , Niger , Tunisia and Western Sahara . West of the Nile , they can be found in Sudan ; east of the Nile, in the Red Sea Hills . The now-extinct Ancient Egyptian corkscrew-horned sheep ( Ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus )

1040-447: The cage and view him. The zoo provides animals an environment similar to the natural habitat. In recent years, some of the old-fashioned cages of the past have been replaced with modern habitats, such as the "Gorilla Woods," built after two well-publicized mishaps in 1999. Many of the animal's enclosures, such as that for the giraffe, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros are still the old style single stall concrete cages with very little room for

1080-613: The camps and drive out or arrest the homeless, who return as soon as they can. While squatting is illegal in Japan, homelessness is seen as an endemic problem in Tokyo and other cities, and the presence of squatters is accepted as an inevitability. Barbary sheep A. l. angusi Rothschild, 1921 A. l. blainei Rothschild, 1913 A. l. lervia Pallas, 1777 A. l. fassini Lepri, 1930 A. l. ornatus I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1827 A. l. sahariensis Rothschild, 1913 The Barbary sheep ( Ammotragus lervia ), also known as aoudad (pronounced [ˈɑʊdæd]),

1120-507: The country, the Sōgakudō Concert Hall of 1890 ( ICP ) was donated to the ward in 1983 and reconstructed on another site in the park, where it is used for concerts. The Tokyo Bunka Kaikan opened in 1961 as a venue for opera and ballet , in celebration of the five hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the city of Edo . The Imperial Library was established as the national library in 1872 and opened in Ueno Park in 1906;

1160-553: The elephants were still starving) and a permanent memorial (built anew in 1975) can be found in the Ueno Zoo. Shortly after the March 1945 bombings of Tokyo, the Japanese placed U.S. Army Air Force navigator and bombardier Ray "Hap" Halloran on display naked in a Ueno Zoo tiger cage, as Halloran later recalled "'the hated B-29 prisoner', naked, unwashed and covered with sores from fleas, lice and bed bug bites", so civilians could walk in front of

1200-567: The governor of Tokyo gifted one of them in 1954 to the city of Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Commodore Matthew C. Perry 's signing of the 1854 Japan-US Treaty of Amity and Friendship . The lantern brought to Washington is known as the Japanese Lantern and currently resides in West Potomac Park among a number of cherry trees, the first of which were gifted by Tokyo mayor Yukio Ozaki in 1912. For over 50 years,

1240-479: The idea of lighting the flame at the precinct of Tosho-gu shrine in Tokyo's Ueno Park. In April 1989, an “Association for the Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Lit at Ueno Toshogu” was founded and tens of thousands of people took part in the fundraising for over one year. The construction of the monument was completed on July 21, 1990. The dedication carved into the memorial stone states that “We, hereby pledge to keep burning

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1280-549: The lighting of the lantern by the Embassy of Japan ’s appointed Cherry Blossom Princess has opened the United States' annual National Cherry Blossom Festival . Taito City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Uenokoen 1-11- ban are zoned to Shinobugaoka Elementary School ( 忍岡小学校 ), while 12-18-ban are zoned to Negishi Elementary School ( 根岸小学校 ). Part of Uenokoen (1-14 ban and parts of 15-17 ban)

1320-441: The marriage of Hirohito , Ueno Park was presented to the city by Emperor Taishō , receiving the official name that lasts to this day of Ueno Onshi Kōen ( 上野恩賜公園 ) , lit. "Ueno Imperial Gift Park". The park has some 8,800 trees, including Ginkgo biloba , Cinnamomum camphora , Zelkova serrata , Formosan cherry , Somei-Yoshino cherry , and Japanese cherry . There is a further 24,800 m of shrubs. Shinobazu Pond

1360-519: The use of the site as a medical school or hospital, but Dutch doctor Bauduin urged instead that the area be turned into a park. In January 1873 the Dajō-kan issued a notice providing for the establishment of public parks, noting that "in prefectures including Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto, there are places of historic interest, scenic beauty, and recreation and relaxation where people can visit and enjoy themselves, for example Sensō-ji and Kan'ei-ji..." This

1400-470: The wild. A. lervia is the only species in the genus Ammotragus . However, some authors include this genus in the goat genus Capra , together with the sheep genus Ovis . The subspecies are found allopatrically in various parts of North Africa: Barbary sheep are found in arid mountainous areas where they graze and browse grasses , bushes , and lichens . They are able to obtain all their metabolic water from food, but if liquid water

1440-467: The zoo be killed, claiming that bombs could hit the zoo and escaped animals would wreak havoc in the streets of Tokyo. Requests by the staff at the zoo for a reprieve, or to evacuate the animals elsewhere, were refused. The animals were executed primarily by poisoning, strangulation or by simply placing the animals on starvation diets. A memorial service was held for the animals in September 1943 (while two of

1480-466: Was again accidentally drained in 1968 during work on a new subway line. In all there are some eight hundred cherry trees in the park, although with the inclusion of those belonging to the Ueno Tōshō-gū shrine, temple buildings, and other neighbouring points the total reaches some twelve hundred. Inspired, Matsuo Bashō wrote "cloud of blossoms - is the temple bell from Ueno or Asakusa". Ueno Park

1520-422: Was also thought to be a subspecies of wild barbary sheep. Populations within its native range have been decreasing due to hunting, legal and otherwise, and destruction of habitat. Barbary sheep have been introduced to southeastern Spain and the southwestern United States . They have become common in a limited region of southeastern Spain, since its introduction in 1970 to Sierra Espuña Regional Park as

1560-1560: Was changed to Shinshin (真真 シンシン), referring to purity (純真) and innocence (天真). The new names were based on a public poll. The final choices picked by the zoo were, however, not among top choices. Reduplication is very common in panda names . The zoo is split into two sections, connected by a bridge called the Aesop Bridge, built in 1961 and a monorail (now defunct). The eastern garden houses giant pandas, sika deer , Japanese squirrels , Eurasian otters , green pheasants , snowy owls , Asian elephants , American bison , black-tailed prairie dogs , colobus monkeys , black-handed spider monkeys , Japanese macaques , African sacred ibises , Japanese black bears , sun bears , Ussuri brown bears , red-crowned cranes , South American tapirs , Sumatran tigers, western lowland gorillas, polar bears , California sea lions and harbor seals . The western garden houses red pandas , western grey kangaroos , African penguins , Caribbean flamingos , shoebills , Barbary sheep , hippopotamus , pygmy hippopotamus , black rhinoceros , reticulated giraffes , okapis , Aldabra giant tortoises , saltwater crocodiles , green iguanas , Japanese pond turtles , aye-ayes , ring-tailed lemurs , black-and-white ruffed lemurs , gray gentle lemurs , cackling geese , great white pelicans , Oriental storks and Steller's sea eagles . [REDACTED] Media related to Ueno Zoo at Wikimedia Commons Ueno Park Ueno Park ( 上野公園 , Ueno Kōen )

1600-565: Was the year after the foundation of Yellowstone , the world's first national park . Later that year Ueno Park was established, alongside Shiba , Asakusa , Asukayama , and Fukugawa Parks. It was administered first by the Home Ministry 's Museum Bureau, then by the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce , before passing to the Ministry of the Imperial Household . In 1924, in honour of

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