Murasakinoyanagi Park radio tower

This park opened in May 1935 as a 'designated children’s park' (jidō-kōen), part of a city-wide plan to increase the amount of outside space available for children to play in created after the 1926 Takada Report had raised concerns that the majority of Kyoto’s children spent their time playing in the street or indoors. This tower is situated at the eastern end the park, it is built into a larger structure consisting of a concrete plaza, roughly 11 m by 4 m, and some bench seating.

This entire installation, including the 2.4 m tall tower, seems to have been built some time after 1941, though the exact date in unknown. A semi-circular groove roughly 6cm across runs up the centre of the rear of this tower, this was to allow it to act as flag stand. The connection between the national flag, the state, and radio broadcasting is embodied in the design of this and similar installations