Report on Places of Scenic Beauty and Historic Sites Designation Submitted

On May 21, the Council for Cultural Affairs (Commissioner: NISHIHARA Suzuko) submitted a report on one place to be designated as a Special Place of Scenic Beauty, eight places to be designated as Historic Sites, and two places to be designated as Places of Scenic Beauty to KAWABATA Tatsuo, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The list includes the Garden at the Eastern Palace of Heijō Palace (Nara City), which was discovered and restored in the southeastern part of the Heijō Palace site to be designated as a Special Place of Scenic Beauty; the ruins of the Chōshū Domain Shimonoseki Maeda Battery Sites (Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture), the scene of the Shimonoseki bombardment in 1864 during the Bakumatsu period, to be designated as a Historic Site; Wakanoura Bay, celebrated in the Manyōshū, to be designated as a Place of Scenic Beauty; two places such as Ogawa’s Garden Kansuien (Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture) to be registered as Registered Monuments; and two places such as the waterfront of Harie and Shimofuri (Takashima City, Shiga Prefecture) to be registered as Important Cultural Landscapes. (Japanese)