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 Shokorrsha 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.%明治以降、神社を軸とする公園が数多く創られた。それは単に神社の歴史や、公園の歴史としてみるのではなく、神社という装置を使った都市空間創出の契機であったと考えるのが本論の主題である。神社の創建と公園の関係については以下の研究事例がある。明治6年の太政官布達正院第16号による府県への公園設置は広く知られているところではある（以降「太政官公園」と略記）。それは神社や寺院の境内地を指定することが多かった。
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