Kasugayama Primeval Forest

The prohibition, in the tenth volume of Shoku Nihon Kōki
(antepenultimate and penultimate lines, left page)

The background to the prohibition, in the first volume of Ruijū Sandai Kyaku [ja]
(left-hand page)

The date, in the continuation of the same: the first day of the third month of Jōwa 8 (841)
(second line, right-hand page)

In 841, during the reign of Emperor Ninmyō, a prohibition was placed on hunting and logging on the sacred mountain.^[2]: 7 In 1873, the Dajō-kan issued a proclamation on the establishment of public parks, and in 1880 Nara Park opened.^[2]: 10 This was extended in 1888 to include the areas of Mount Kasuga and Mount Wakakusa; that same year, some two thousand trees on Mount Kasuga were felled by a typhoon.^[2]: 10 In 1922, Nara Park was designated a Place of Scenic Beauty under the 1919 Historical Sites, Places of Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monuments Preservation Law.^[7] Two years later, Kasugayama Primeval Forest was designated a Natural Monument, a designation upgraded in 1955 to that of Special Natural Monument, under the 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.^[3]

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