In the Meiji period, the site was used as a gunpowder magazine, under the control of the Navy and Army Ministries. In 1913 the gunpowder magazine was scrapped, and in 1917 it came under the authority of the Imperial Family Forest and Field Bureau of the Imperial Household Ministry. Renamed the Shirokane Imperial Estate, the plot was divided in 1921, with part of the estate becoming the residential property of Asakanomiya family.


Map of gunpowder magazine,
Meiji era (1872)
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