Grant Heights 2

What Became of Grant Heights? 2
(or, Let's Class This Joint Up With Some Poetry!)
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..	When Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew. Song From Juvenile Poems, Thomas Moore

The park has become a magnet for Northwest Tokyo's suburban families on the weekend.

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	Hikarigaoka Park was once Grant Heights, U.S. Military Family Housing Complex and the home of Narimasu Tokyo American High School


Apartment buildings	Adminstration buildings	Modern sculpture

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Modern architecture	Roads bisecting the rows of sakura trees	Modern offices overlooking apartments

	None of the man-made buildings, roads nor sculptures .. though they might be appreciated as well .. have the capacity to literally take your breath away, as the nature inside Hikarigaoka Park will. The profusion of flowers, plants, trees and wildlife are a source of soothing relief from the stress of modern Tokyo. View each large photo leisurely, as if you were there, to infuse some of the serenity and tranquility of such an experience.

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	As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose. Believe me, if all those endearing young Charms, Thomas Moore

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	And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns. Oh think not my Spirits are always as light, Thomas Moore

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	See! The winter is past, the rain is over and gone; flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the cooing of doves is heard in our land. Song of Solomon 2:11-12, Old Testament

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	I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Cæsar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head. Rubáiyát, Omar Khayyám

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	The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower Intimations of Immortality,William Wordsworth

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	Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. The Fire-Worshippers, Thomas Moore

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	A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. Imitation of Horace, Jonathan Swift

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	Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. Table Talk, William Cowper

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	As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind blows over it and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more. Psalm 103:15-16, Old Testament

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Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. As You Like It, William Shakespeare		Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly. As You Like It, William Shakespeare


	Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life 's a short summer, man a flower; He dies--alas! how soon he dies! Winter. An Ode, Samuel Johnson

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	360-degree view of a section of the park

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Pictures from Japanese site, Hikarigaoka Park Expert -http://www.mars.dti.ne.jp/~hhotta/

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