The soil survey was carried out at three sites in the Meiji shrine forest, which had been constructed in 1920, in Sibuya, Tokyo. Each site was covered with evergreen broad-leaved forests but the former land use had been different. The first site, Naien site had been a forest in resident, the second site, Kita -sandou had been a grassland or abandoned fields, and the third site, Renpeijou-ato had been used for a military drill ground. The soil type of each site was entirely Black soil with a thick A horizon of which the thickness in Naien, Kita-sandou and Renpeijou-ato soils were 120, 90 and 50cm respectively. The darkest horizon, which was considered to be buried A horizon, existed in the lower part of A horizons in Naien and Kita-sandou soils, whereas Renpeijou-ato soil did not have such a darkest horizon. The pH and exchangeable cation content of the A horizon in Renpeijou-ato soil resembled those of the lower part of the A horizons in Naien and Kita-sandou soils. We supposed that the upper part of the A horizon of Renpeijou-ato soil had been lost. In Renpeijou-ato soil, the A_1 horizon had crumb structure and its structure was very loose, but the A_2 and the A_3 horizon were very hard, and platy structure was observed in the A_2 horizon. Loose structure was also observed in the A_1 horizon of other two soils and any A horizon of other two soils was not harder than the A_2 and the A_3 horizons in Renpeijou-ato soil. Therefore, we considered that, in Renpeijou-ato soil, the former land use must have influenced the compactness of the A_2 and the A_3 horizons and the platy structure of the A_2 horizon, whereas the loose structure of the A_1 horizon might have been formed by the forest cover during the past 70 years.
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