Thanks to the wooden plate offered to the Meteorological Shrine wishing for fine weather, we happily enjoyed a fine day on the 14th in spite of its being amid the rainy season. The number of participants this time was as high as 48 including teachers, certainly because of Mr Gamou's, Japanese history teacher, taking the trouble of guiding them through Komaba giving historical explanation. The participants included two fathers.
　The participants gathered in front of the main gate of Tokyo University and headed for the campus-wide restaurant "Lever Son Verre Komaba". Choices were pork back ribs boiled in beer, grunt au poiret, cream pasta of tuna offered as daily lunch menu, etc. etc. What's important was to have a meal. Done.

　Before arriving at the restaurant, however, we visited the "Statue of Komaba Agriculture School" and the "Statue of School Song of Ichi-Kou (First Senior High School). Many participants had visited the restaurant before but few noticed the existence of the statues.
　Historical Explanation: Komaba Agriculture School (later Agricultural Faculty of Tokyo University) invited professors from England, afterward, from Germany in order to advance agriculture in Japan. The rice field found in Komaba Park is called Kerner Rice Field from the German Prof. Kerner. There is valley between the Rice Field and Kokusai High School: a valuable scenic beauty reminiscent of Musashino.

　Ichikou (First Senior High School) was relocated from Hongo to Komaba after the Great Kanto Earthquake (1923), and its school emblem consisting of olive symbolizing Goddess of Wisdom and of oak leaf symbolizing Mars is still found on the main gate of the university in a large fretwork.
　The Maeda Family, one of the Feudal Lords in Kaga Domain whose income rating was one million Koku, was relocated from Hongo to Komaba after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923.

　It is said that Maeda family constructed this kind of luxurious European and Japanese houses to receive guests from foreign countries, although they were sometimes criticized for spending too much money. The houses are open to the public free of charge on Saturdays.
　Mr. Gamou will hold an open high school class regarding the history around Komaba and Shibuya. Many participants would like to take part in the class too.