江戸時代の通称「振り袖火事」（１６５７年）以降、雑木林や草原であった牛込地区に武家が移り住み、武家屋敷中心の街が形成されました、したがってこの公園は江戸時代の牛込を思い起こさせる武家屋敷をイメージした和風公園として整備しました。

After a disaster commonly called “Long-sleeved kimono Fire” which took place in 1657 in the Edo period, the samurai class has moved to ushigome area covered with thickets and the grass, and formed a residential quarter where most of the residences were the samurai class.
Based on this fact, this park was made as a Japanese garden with an open space which is modeled the residential area of the samurai class that reminds you of Ushigome area in the Edo period.