After the Meiji-era, the forest around Shin-to shrine was refined as Shin-en (The forest for God) in order to keep shrine's authority. This Shin-en had also function as the Urban Park. This paper discusses an example of building of a shrine and a park in Okayama City. The Shokon-sha shrine (the Shin-to shrine dedicated the sprits of war dead soldiers) was built in 1869 on a hill Higashi-yama where the shrine dedicated Tokugawa Shogun from 1644 that was the most important memorial space for the governor Daimyo Ikeda. After the stationing of Army 17 division in 1907, the Shokon-sha shrine was rebuilt with the refined Shin-en Parks designed by the technocrat belong to Ministry of Imperial House as the authority for the sprit of soldiers of Imperial Army.
