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Koishikawa-Kōrakuen is a seventeenth-century garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste.
It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
参勤交代 was a practice in which the local warlords would pay a visit to the shogun (将軍, the military dictator ruling the entire Japan) of the given period. It lasted for nearly three centuries (from the early 1600's until the mid 19th century).
Normally, a warlord's close family members (wife or children) were required to remain for a certain period of time in the city of Edo (modern-day Tokyo) as hostages. "The expenditures necessary to maintain lavish residences in both places, and for the procession to and from Edo, placed financial strains on the daimyo (warlords) making them unable to wage war." (Wikipedia)
I was at the very castle yesterday, where shoguns resided - now better known as the Imperial Palace. While I was walking out of the castle, I saw a procession of "salary men" in suits. They were perhaps on their ways out as well, signaling the end of their lunch break (the Palace is surrounded by numerous office buildings). I thought it would make an interesting image to have them captured in what was once the "then-salarymen's" pathway to their master.
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Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
Chinese postcard. Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai (left) in Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961).
On 8 November 2025, Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025) passed away at the age of 92. He was a star actor in films by Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi. He was top-billed in a double role in Kurosawa's epic Kagemusha (1980) and played the dying king, modelled on Lear, in Ran (Kurosawa, 1985). In his over seven-decade career, he appeared in more than 160 films and received numerous accolades.
Tatsuya Nakadai was born Motohisa Nakadai in 1932 in Tokyo, in the Japanese Empire. His father worked as a bus driver, and after he died in 1941, the family moved to Aoyama. He had no university education or training as an actor. Tall and handsome Nakadai was working as a shop assistant in Tokyo when fledging Shochiku Studios director Masaki Kobayashi discovered him by chance and gave him a small, uncredited role in Kabe atsuki heya / The Thick-Walled Room (Masaki Kobayashi, 1953-1956). The release of the film was delayed for three years due to its controversial subject matter. Around the same time, Nakadai played an uncredited samurai in Shichinin no samurai / The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954). Reportedly, director Kurosawa spent more than 5 minutes lecturing on how to walk correctly as a wandering samurai for an appearance that totals about 4 seconds in duration. After the embarrassing grilling by Kurosawa, the then 19-year-old Nakadai decided to work very hard on his acting skills so as to be able to reject any future offer by the director. His official acting debut was in Hi no tori / Phoenix (Umetsugu Inoue, 1956). Soon followed roles in Kuroi kawa / Black River (Masaki Kobayashi, 1957), Arakure / Untamed (Mikio Naruse, 1957), Enjo / Conflagration (Kon Ichikawa, 1958), Hadaka no taiyo / Naked Sun (Miyoji Ieki, 1958), Kagi / The Key / Odd Obsession (Kon Ichikawa, 1959). Nakadai had his breakthrough in Masaki Kobayashi's epic anti-war trilogy Ningen no jōken / The Human Condition (1959–1961), based on the novel of the same name by Junpei Gomikawa. The trilogy, subtitled No Greater Love (1959), Road to Eternity (1959), and A Soldier's Prayer (1961), follows the life of Kaji, a Japanese pacifist and socialist, as he tries to survive in the totalitarian and oppressive world of World War II-era Japan. In the same period, Nakadai appeared in several films by Mikio Naruse, including Onna ga kaidan o noboru toki / When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960), Musume tsuma haha / Daughters, Wives and a Mother (Mikio Naruse, 1960), Tsuma to shite onna to shite / As a Wife, As a Woman (Mikio Naruse, 1960). Tatsuya Nakadai was top-billed in Aoi yaju / The Blue Beast (Hiromichi Horikawa, 1960),
By 1960, Tatsuya Nakadai had more than twenty feature films on his Shochiku résumé. He next played Unosuke, Toshiro Mifune's formidable gun-wielding opponent in the classic Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa, 1961). That same year, he starred in the Oscar-nominated Eien no hito / Immortal Love / Bitter Spirit (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1961). He reunited with Kurosawa for the sequel to Yojimbo, Tsubaki Sanjuro / Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1961), and the kidnapping thriller Tengoku to jigoku / High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963), in which he played the police inspector. With Kobayashi, he made Karami-ai / The Inheritance (Kobayashi, 1962). He won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor for his performance as the ageing and vengeful ronin in Seppuku / Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962), a role he considered his finest. He played a samurai in his 50s while he was 33. His other notable credits of the 1960s included Dai-bosatsu Toge / The Sword of Doom (Kihachi Okamoto, 1966), Tanin no kao / The Face of Another (Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1966), and the comedy Kiru / Kill! (Kihachi Okamoto, 1968) and Goyokin / Official Gold (Hideo Gosha, 1969). In Italy, he acted in the Spaghetti Western Oggi a me… domani a te / Today We Kill… Tomorrow We Die (Tonino Cervi, 1968) with Brett Halsey and Bud Spencer. It was the directorial debut of Tonino Cervi, who co-wrote the film with Dario Argento.
A lifelong stage actor, Tatsuya Nakadai founded the acting school Mumeijuku with his wife Yasuko Miyazaki in 1975. He continued performing on stage into his nineties. His films of the 1970s include Inochi bonifuro / Inn of Evil (Masaki Kobayashi, 1971), the crime film Shussho iwai / The Wolves (Hideo Gosha, 1971), Fumo chitai / Barren Zone (Satsuo Yamamoto, 1976), and Ni hyaku san kochi / The Battle of Port Arthur (Toshio Masuda, 1980). Nakadai appeared in two more Kurosawa films in the 1980s. In the epic Kagemusha / Shadow Warrior (Akira Kurosawa, 1980), Nakadai plays both the titular thief turned body-double and the famous daimyō Takeda Shingen, whom the thief is tasked with impersonating. This dual role helped him win his second Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor. The film won the Palme d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival (tied with All That Jazz). It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and received other honours. In the historical epic Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985), Nakadai plays another daimyō, Hidetora Ichimonji, an ageing Sengoku-period warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favour of his three sons. The role is loosely based on King Lear from Shakespeare's play 'King Lear' and inspired by the historical daimyō Mōri Motonari. Nakadai also appeared in the British war film Return from the River Kwai (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1988) about POWs of the Japanese in World War II and starring Edward Fox and Denholm Elliott
Tatsuya Nakadai co-starred with Jacky Cheung in the Science Fiction film Yiu sau dou sih / The Wicked City (Peter Mak alias Mak Tai-kit, 1992). It is a live-action film adaptation of the Japanese anime of the same name, which in turn is based on the first novel of the series of the same name by Hideyuki Kikuchi. The film was produced by Tsui Hark, who actually directed many scenes himself. Remarkable is also the Japanese Western East Meets West (Kihachi Okamoto, 1995). With Okamoto, he made many films, including Sukedachiya Sukeroku / Vengeance for Sale (Kihachi Okamoto, 2002). He also appeared in the project left behind by Kurosawa, Ame agaru / After the Rain (Takashi Koizumi, 1999). His final films included Otoko-tachi no Yamato / Yamato (Junya Sato, 2005), Haru to no tabi / Haru’s Journey (Masahiro Kobayashi, 2010), Jinrui shikin / Human Trust (Junji Sakamoto, 2013), Umibe no ria /Lear on the Shore (Masahiro Kobayashi, 2017) and Kikyo / Kikyo – The Return (Shigemichi Sugita, 2019). In 1996, he received the Medal with Purple Ribbon, and in 2015, he received the Order of Culture. His final stage performance was in May 2025 in Noto, Ishikawa, as part of a stage tour. Nakadai died from pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on 8 November 2025, at the age of 92. His daughter was at his side at the time of his death. His death was disclosed three days later, on 11 November.
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Kato Kiyomasa built the Goten palace in 1610 shortly after the main keep was finished in 1607. The Goten was burned down during the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877 and the reconstruction finished in 2008. The walls used to have paintings, but the exact artwork is unknown so they were left bare. The daimyo's chambers at the far end were well known and were re-decorated.
Sometimes the art on the walls was documented, but without the location. In this case, one section of the goten has displays of unattached doors with the artwork redone.
Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
The famous "balcony" on the temple before the current reconstruction started. The temple was founded here in 798 but these structures date back to 1633, when the veranda was also built. Most of Kyoto's temples are of 17th Century vintage, as the Tokugawa shogun had the various daimyo reconstruct temples all over Japan to deplete any excess funds that could have been used to hire soldiers. Japanese carpentry uses no nails and there are none here.
Picture taken before Japan opened the floodgates to "World Heritage Site" pilgrims who now line up all the way to the entrance down the hill.
This card is of a Japanese woman, a courtesan O-Koto-San. Here she has a smoke whilst thinking of her soldier lover. Meanwhile her made prepares her bed.
This is a post card, part of a series of at least 12 cards, from about 1905-1910 about O-Koto-San and I will post all those that I have as time goes by - I have twelve of them depicting various scenes from the daily life of this courtesan, but what were courtesans?
The wives of the daimyo or feudal lords subbordinate to the Shogun and also the wives of high-ranking samurai, followed Confucian ideals being expected to dress modestly and serve their husbands. These high position men looked to courtesans to find passion and love. The men wanted to believe that their favourite courtesans were in love with them, and they were sold as such.
So basically a courtesan was a high-class and much superior prostitute with refined entertainment skills and often with training in the traditional arts.
This is the view of the castle at present,which the first original one was much bigger than this.
Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城 Tsuruga-jo)
Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城, Aizuwakamatsu-jo), also known as Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城 Tsuruga-jo) is a traditional castle in northern Japan, at the center of the town of Aizuwakamatsu, in Fukushima Prefecture.
It is sometimes simply called the White Crane castle and is situated in a gorgeous section of Japan. With nearby Mount Bandai and lake Inawashiro this area offers some breath taking scenery. The castle stands on a hill 3km. east of Aizu- Wakamatsu Station. It is surrounded by a thousand cherry trees, innumerable evergreens, a stone wall and moat. The white tower rising high in the blue sky provides a splendid view of the entire Aizu valley. The 5-story castle serves as a local history museum. The first floor contains materials pertaining to the Buddhist culture in the Aizu area and Aizu rulers'. The second floor holds famous antique lacquer ware and pottery. The third floor holds items connected with the Boshin War are located on the next two floors. The forth floor focuses on the famous Byakkotai pictures, the White Tiger Group, a group of loyal youths who met a tragic end during the war. The fifth floor functions as an observation platform. There is an interesting display of antiques in the long one-story wing Hashiri Nagaya, which extends from the southern end of the castle.
A one Ashina Naomori constructed the first building, in 1384. In ca. 1593, Gamou Ujisato finished building the rest of the castle and included name of Tsurugajo (White heron castle). The stone wall, also completed at that time, still remains to be the foundation of the entire castle area even 400 years later. During the end of the Edo Period, the Aizu soldiers were involved in the Boshin Civil War, which continued from the Toba Fushimi War. They were defeated after about one month of fighting to protect the castle. The new government destroyed the castle in 1874, (the 7th year of Meiji). Tsurugajo Castle was rebuilt in 1965 in accordance with its original design. It symbolizes the samurai culture in Aizu-Wakamatsu, the oldest town in Fukushima Prefecture.
Date Masamune, the greatest warlord of the Tohoku area, had struggled against the Ashina clan for years, and finally captured the castle in 1589. But soon he submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and gave it up in 1590.
In 1592 a new lord, Gamo Ujisato, redesigned the castle and gave it the name Tsuruga Castle, although the populace also referred to it as Aizu Castle or Wakamatsu Castle.
During the Edo period, it was the seat of the daimyo of the Aizu Han. The founder was Hoshina Masayuki, the son of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and the grandson of Ieyasu. He and his successors bore the Matsudaira name. The castle was an important Tokugawa stronghold in the Tohoku Region of Honshu.
Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
Shinjuku Gyo-en (新宿御苑) is a large park and garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. It is now a national park under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment.
History
The shōgun bequeathed this land to Lord Naitō (daimyō) of Tsuruga in the Edo period who completed a garden here in 1772. After the Meiji Restoration the house and its grounds were converted into an experimental agricultural centre. It then became a botanical garden before becoming an imperial garden in 1879. The current configuration of the garden was completed in 1906. Most of the garden was destroyed by air raids in 1945, during the later stages of World War II. The garden was rebuilt after the war.
The jurisdiction over the Imperial Palace Outer Garden and the Kyoto imperial garden was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) in 1947.
On May 21, 1949, the garden became open to the public as a national park. It came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment in January 2001, with the official English name "Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden". The official Japanese name remains Shinjuku Gyoen, where gyoen means "imperial garden".
In 1989, the Shinjuku Gyoen was the site chosen for the funeral rites of Emperor Shōwa before he was buried at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard.
Features
The garden, which is 58.3 hectares in area with a circumference of 3.5 km, blends three distinct styles: a French Formal and English Landscape in the north and to the south a Japanese traditional. A traditional Japanese tea house can be found within the gardens.
The garden is a favourite hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) spot, and large crowds can be present during cherry blossom season.
Flora
The garden has more than 20,000 trees, including approximately 1,500 cherry trees which bloom from late March (Shidare or Weeping Cherry), to early April (Somei or Tokyo Cherry), and on to late April (Kanzan Cherry). Other trees found here include the majestic Himalayan cedars, which soar above the rest of the trees in the park, tulip trees, cypresses, and plane trees, which were first planted in Japan in the Imperial Gardens.
Horticulture work has been going on in the greenhouses in the garden since 1892. The present greenhouse, built in the 1950s has a stock of over 1,700 tropical and subtropical plant species on permanent display.
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As this Full Size Quercus Dentata is Rare to the UK I have put on a another Image along with its Mate the Japanese Pagoda Tree in foreground
Gunnersbury Park. West London. England. UK.
from Wikipedia: "Ninomiya Kinjiro was a prominent 19th century Japanese agricultural leader who was born to a poor peasant family but became a great landowner and aid to the bakufu and daimyo. In Japan, he is still a symbol of hard work and perseverance today." - you can find his statue in lots of elementary schools, still. And in front of Yaesu Book Center.
Whenever my friends catch me reading & walking, they'll call me "Ninomiya-san"... ^_^;
追伸: 金次郎は女性名に変えると、何でしょう?
Koishikawa-Kōrakuen is a seventeenth-century garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste.
It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
Shinjuku Gyo-en (新宿御苑) is a large park and garden in Shinjuku and Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally a residence of the Naitō family in the Edo period. Afterwards, it became a garden under the management of the Imperial Household Agency of Japan. It is now a national park under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment.
History
The shōgun bequeathed this land to Lord Naitō (daimyō) of Tsuruga in the Edo period who completed a garden here in 1772. After the Meiji Restoration the house and its grounds were converted into an experimental agricultural centre. It then became a botanical garden before becoming an imperial garden in 1879. The current configuration of the garden was completed in 1906. Most of the garden was destroyed by air raids in 1945, during the later stages of World War II. The garden was rebuilt after the war.
The jurisdiction over the Imperial Palace Outer Garden and the Kyoto imperial garden was transferred to the Ministry of Health and Welfare (now part of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare) in 1947.
On May 21, 1949, the garden became open to the public as a national park. It came under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of the Environment in January 2001, with the official English name "Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden". The official Japanese name remains Shinjuku Gyoen, where gyoen means "imperial garden".
In 1989, the Shinjuku Gyoen was the site chosen for the funeral rites of Emperor Shōwa before he was buried at the Musashi Imperial Graveyard.
Features
The garden, which is 58.3 hectares in area with a circumference of 3.5 km, blends three distinct styles: a French Formal and English Landscape in the north and to the south a Japanese traditional. A traditional Japanese tea house can be found within the gardens.
The garden is a favourite hanami (cherry-blossom viewing) spot, and large crowds can be present during cherry blossom season.
Flora
The garden has more than 20,000 trees, including approximately 1,500 cherry trees which bloom from late March (Shidare or Weeping Cherry), to early April (Somei or Tokyo Cherry), and on to late April (Kanzan Cherry). Other trees found here include the majestic Himalayan cedars, which soar above the rest of the trees in the park, tulip trees, cypresses, and plane trees, which were first planted in Japan in the Imperial Gardens.
Horticulture work has been going on in the greenhouses in the garden since 1892. The present greenhouse, built in the 1950s has a stock of over 1,700 tropical and subtropical plant species on permanent display.
Shōkozan Tōkei-ji (松岡山東慶寺), also known as Kakekomi-dera (駆け込み寺) or Enkiri-dera (縁切り寺), is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of a network of five nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山), in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Rinzai school of Zen's Engaku-ji branch, and was opened by Hōjō Sadatoki in 1285. It is best known as a historic refuge for women who were abused by their husbands. It is for this reason sometimes referred to as the "Divorce Temple".
The temple was founded in the 8th year of Koan (1285) by nun Kakusan-ni, wife of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), after her husband's death. Because it was then customary for a wife to become a nun after her husband's death, she decided to open the temple and dedicate it to the memory of her husband. She also made it a refuge for battered wives.
In an age when men could easily divorce their wives but wives had great difficulty divorcing their husbands, Tōkei-ji allowed women to become officially divorced after staying there for two years. Temple records show that, during the Tokugawa period alone, an estimated 2,000 women sought shelter there. The temple lost its right to concede divorce in 1873, when a new law was approved and the Court of Justice started to handle the cases.
The temple remained a nunnery for over 600 years and men could not enter until 1902, when a man took the post of abbot and Tōkei-ji came under the supervision of Engaku-ji. Before then, the chief nun was always an important figure, and once it even was a daughter of Emperor Go-Daigo. Tenshū-ni, the daughter and only survivor of Toyotomi Hideyori's family, son of Hideyoshi, entered Tōkei-ji following the Siege of Osaka. Such was the nunnery's prestige that its couriers did not need to prostrate themselves when they met a daimyōs procession.
The two main buildings of the complex are the Main Hall and the Suigetsu-dō, but the latter is not open to visitors. The temple's old Butsuden, an Important Cultural Property, was bought during the Meiji period by businessman Tomitaro Hara and is now in the garden he built, Yokohama's Sankei-en.
Behind the temple there is a graveyard where many celebrities are buried, among them in adjacent graves are three men also famous among European Zen and haiku interested, Kitarō Nishida, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki and Reginald Horace Blyth.
Tōkei-ji - Wikipedia
Shōkozan Tōkei-ji (松岡 山東 慶 寺), también conocido como Kakekomi-dera (駆 け 込 み 寺) o Enkiri-dera (縁 切 り 寺), es un templo budista y un antiguo convento, el único superviviente de una red. de cinco conventos llamados Amagozan (尼 五 山), en la ciudad de Kamakura en la prefectura de Kanagawa, Japón. Es parte de la escuela Rinzai de la rama Engaku-ji de Zen, y fue inaugurada por Hōjō Sadatoki en 1285. Es más conocida como un refugio histórico para mujeres que fueron abusadas por sus maridos. Por esta razón, a veces se lo denomina "Templo del divorcio".
El templo fue fundado en el octavo año de Koan (1285) por la monja Kakusan-ni, esposa de Hōjō Tokimune (1251-1284), después de la muerte de su esposo. Debido a que entonces era costumbre que una esposa se convirtiera en monja después de la muerte de su esposo, decidió abrir el templo y dedicarlo a la memoria de su esposo. También lo convirtió en un refugio para esposas maltratadas.
En una época en la que los hombres podían divorciarse fácilmente de sus esposas, pero las esposas tenían grandes dificultades para divorciarse de sus maridos, Tōkei-ji permitió que las mujeres se divorciaran oficialmente después de permanecer allí durante dos años. Los registros del templo muestran que, solo durante el período Tokugawa, unas 2.000 mujeres buscaron refugio allí. El templo perdió su derecho a otorgar el divorcio en 1873, cuando se aprobó una nueva ley y el Tribunal de Justicia comenzó a manejar los casos.
El templo siguió siendo un convento durante más de 600 años y los hombres no pudieron entrar hasta 1902, cuando un hombre asumió el cargo de abad y Tōkei-ji quedó bajo la supervisión de Engaku-ji. Antes de eso, la monja principal siempre fue una figura importante, e incluso una vez fue hija del emperador Go-Daigo. Tenshū-ni, la hija y única superviviente de la familia de Toyotomi Hideyori, hijo de Hideyoshi, entró en Tōkei-ji tras el Asedio de Osaka. Tal era el prestigio del convento de monjas que sus mensajeros no necesitaban postrarse cuando se encontraban con una procesión de daimyō.
Los dos edificios principales del complejo son el Salón Principal y el Suigetsu-dō, pero este último no está abierto a los visitantes. El antiguo Butsuden del templo, una propiedad cultural importante, fue comprado durante el período Meiji por el empresario Tomitaro Hara y ahora se encuentra en el jardín que construyó, Sankei-en de Yokohama.
Detrás del templo hay un cementerio donde están enterradas muchas celebridades, entre ellas en tumbas adyacentes hay tres hombres también famosos entre el Zen europeo y los interesados en el haiku, Kitarō Nishida, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki y Reginald Horace Blyth.
Rikugien is a garden in Tokyo that was built in 1702 by the feudal lord and shogunal adviser Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.
After the end of the feudal era, the property came to be owned by the founder of the Mitsubishi Group, Iwasaki Yatarō. The property was then donated by his family to Tokyo in 1938.
Shōkozan Tōkei-ji (松岡山東慶寺), also known as Kakekomi-dera (駆け込み寺) or Enkiri-dera (縁切り寺), is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of a network of five nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山), in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Rinzai school of Zen's Engaku-ji branch, and was opened by Hōjō Sadatoki in 1285. It is best known as a historic refuge for women who were abused by their husbands.[1] It is for this reason sometimes referred to as the "Divorce Temple".
The temple was founded in the 8th year of Koan (1285) by nun Kakusan-ni, wife of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), after her husband's death. Because it was then customary for a wife to become a nun after her husband's death, she decided to open the temple and dedicate it to the memory of her husband. She also made it a refuge for battered wives.
In an age when men could easily divorce their wives but wives had great difficulty divorcing their husbands, Tōkei-ji allowed women to become officially divorced after staying there for two years. Temple records show that, during the Tokugawa period alone, an estimated 2,000 women sought shelter there. The temple lost its right to concede divorce in 1873, when a new law was approved and the Court of Justice started to handle the cases.
The temple remained a nunnery for over 600 years and men could not enter until 1902, when a man took the post of abbot and Tōkei-ji came under the supervision of Engaku-ji. Before then, the chief nun was always an important figure, and once it even was a daughter of Emperor Go-Daigo. Tenshū-ni, the daughter and only survivor of Toyotomi Hideyori's family, son of Hideyoshi, entered Tōkei-ji following the Siege of Osaka. Such was the nunnery's prestige that its couriers did not need to prostrate themselves when they met a daimyō's procession.
The two main buildings of the complex are the Main Hall and the Suigetsu-dō, but the latter is not open to visitors. The temple's old Butsuden, an Important Cultural Property, was bought during the Meiji period by businessman Tomitaro Hara and is now in the garden he built, Yokohama's Sankei-en.
Koishikawa-Kōrakuen is a seventeenth-century garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste.
It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
Hikone-jo some minutes before the storm, as always I visit a japanese castle.
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Como viene siendo tradición, siempre que visito un castillo en Japón asoma una tormenta en ciernes.
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Koishikawa-Kōrakuen is a seventeenth-century garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste.
It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
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Koishikawa-Kōrakuen is a seventeenth-century garden in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo. The garden was begun by Mito Yorifusa in 1629, and completed by his son Mito Mitsukuni. It was created with advice from the Chinese scholar Zhu Shun Shui, and incorporates elements of both Chinese and Japanese taste.
It is one of three surviving daimyō gardens of the many that were created in Edo after it became the military capital of the country, the others being the Rikugi-en and the Hama Rikyū gardens.
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” --Tanizaki Junichirō, In Praise of Shadows
This is a replica of Furuta Oribe's famous tea room (chashitsu), Ennan, that was on display in the Tokyo National Museum for its Chanoyu Exhibition.
Furuta Oribe (1544-1615) was a daimyo and famed tea master during the closing era of Japan's Sengoku warring states period. He was ordered to commit seppuku by Tokugawa Ieyasu after he was accused of conspiring with the Toyotomi clan during the Siege of Osaka in 1615.
location : Gaunzan Sokusyu-in ,Tohukuji Kyoto city, Japan
With the exception of special openings, this temple is not ordinarily open to the public.
（京の冬の旅 特別公開寺院）関白の山荘跡・西郷隆盛ゆかりの寺 東福寺 即宗院
Founded by priest Gochu Genju 剛中玄柔(the 54th abbot in residence of Tofuku-ji東福寺 / 1318-1388),Guanzan Sokushu-in 臥雲山即宗院 was established in 1387 for the salvation of Daimyo (feudal load) of Satsuma domain薩摩藩 ( presant-day Kagoshima Prefecture).With a history of over 800 years,the site was once court noble Fujiwara no Kanezane's villa - Tsukinowaden palace,built his retirement from the service of Kampaku 関白( chief adviser to the Emperor) in 1196.
During the closing days of Tokugawa bakufu,Satsuma domain's Saigo Takamori 西郷隆盛was said to have hidden in Saishintei,the tea house,and schemed to overthrow the Tokugawa regime.Chased by the Tokugawa army,Saigo lead an attack at the top of the back hills and consequently attained the Meiji Restoration. a gravestone Saigo dedicated to the 524 members who died for the battle of the restoration can be found in the back hill. There are also several gravesites of Son'nojo-i 尊王攘夷(Revel the Emperor ,Expel the Barbarians- a movement to overthrow the Tokugawa bakufu) heroes. Especially known for the beauty of its fresh mosses and autumn foliages,the historidal garden is a famous site that has been painted repeatedly.During the winter seasons,fruits of coral berries are also in site. - Gaunzan Sokusyu-in
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庭園は撮影可能。ただし建物内部は全て撮影不可。
Shōkozan Tōkei-ji (松岡山東慶寺), also known as Kakekomi-dera (駆け込み寺) or Enkiri-dera (縁切り寺), is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of a network of five nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山), in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Rinzai school of Zen's Engaku-ji branch, and was opened by Hōjō Sadatoki in 1285. It is best known as a historic refuge for women who were abused by their husbands.[1] It is for this reason sometimes referred to as the "Divorce Temple".
The temple was founded in the 8th year of Koan (1285) by nun Kakusan-ni, wife of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), after her husband's death. Because it was then customary for a wife to become a nun after her husband's death, she decided to open the temple and dedicate it to the memory of her husband. She also made it a refuge for battered wives.
In an age when men could easily divorce their wives but wives had great difficulty divorcing their husbands, Tōkei-ji allowed women to become officially divorced after staying there for two years. Temple records show that, during the Tokugawa period alone, an estimated 2,000 women sought shelter there. The temple lost its right to concede divorce in 1873, when a new law was approved and the Court of Justice started to handle the cases.
The temple remained a nunnery for over 600 years and men could not enter until 1902, when a man took the post of abbot and Tōkei-ji came under the supervision of Engaku-ji. Before then, the chief nun was always an important figure, and once it even was a daughter of Emperor Go-Daigo. Tenshū-ni, the daughter and only survivor of Toyotomi Hideyori's family, son of Hideyoshi, entered Tōkei-ji following the Siege of Osaka. Such was the nunnery's prestige that its couriers did not need to prostrate themselves when they met a daimyō's procession.
The two main buildings of the complex are the Main Hall and the Suigetsu-dō, but the latter is not open to visitors. The temple's old Butsuden, an Important Cultural Property, was bought during the Meiji period by businessman Tomitaro Hara and is now in the garden he built, Yokohama's Sankei-en.
In the early 17th century european traders and missionaries was banned to enter Japan. The shogunate believed that the europeans were forerunners of a military campaign and therefore they were expelled.
The project is inspired by these events. The scene depicts some desperate Europeans who tried to take refuge in a castle.
Narita-san Isshin-ji is a smal temple in Shinagawa, which was the first post town heading from Edo to Kyoto along the old Tōkaidō road. This is a branch of the Narita-san temple near Narita airport in Chiba Prefecture. This little temple was established in 1855 by Ii Naosuke, who was the daimyo of the domain of Hikone and the senior elder (tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate who ruled with an iron fist at a time of great crisis in Japan.
Naosuke signed the treaty of Amity and Friendship with the United States in 1858 that opened more ports to foreign trade and granted Americans extraterritorial rights among other things. This treaty, often known as the Harris Treaty, was extremely unpopular with the pro-imperial/anti-foreigner crowd. To quell opposition and strengthen Tokugawa power during the crisis, Naosuke rounded up those who were deemed a political threat and had them arrested and in some extreme cases, executed. This further agitated anti-shogunate militant samurai and Naosuke was assassinated in front of the Sakuradamon gate of Edo Castle on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month in 1860.
The Meiji government that replaced the Tokugawa shogunate was quick to vilify Ii Naosuke and paint him as one of the most despicable Tokugawa officials, as he had ordered the arrest and execution of one of the early pro-imperial activists, Yoshida Shōin. Shōin was a teacher to many of the militant anti-shogunate samurai from the domain of Chōshū who became government officials after the 1868 Meiji coup. Shōin had started advocating assassination and violence as a means of of political change, and that did not go down well with the holder of the reigns of Tokugawa power.
As Japan's shackles to its 19th and 20th century imperial past rust away and break, Naosuke's political legacy as well as his cultural contributions (he was a renowned tea master) have been re-evaluated, restoring some credit to this powerful Bakumatsu period statesman's reputation.
Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden (小石川後楽園) is in Koishikawa, Bunkyō, Tokyo, adjacent to Tokyo Dome City. It is one of two surviving Edo period clan gardens in modern Tokyo, the other being Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden, and one of the oldest and best preserved parks in Tokyo.
The construction was started in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the daimyo (feudal lord) of Mito han, and was completed by his successor, Tokugawa Mitsukuni.
Mitsukuni named this garden "Kōraku-en" (Kōraku means "enjoying afterwards") after a Chinese teaching of "a governor should worry before people and enjoy after people". The garden shows strong Chinese character in its design, as it was influenced by the West Lake of Hangzhou. (Wikipedia)
During a period of peace and prosperity., the Temple of Dawn was a place for shogun, samurai and daimyo to pursue and develop art forms intended to keep the minds of military men off of war.
The link to the main photo flic.kr/p/ds1Tyr
These are the terraced defensive walls of Toba Castle, in Toba City, Mie Prefecture, was originally built in 1594 by Kuki Yoshitaka, one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's pirate leaders turned daimyo and one of the naval leaders of Japan's failed invasion of Korea. True to Yoshitaka's ties to the sea, the main gate faced the ocean and the castle grounds gave a nice bird's eye view of Ise Bay.
The Kuki held the castle until 1633, when the Tokugawa shogunate gave the 30,000 koku Toba fief to the Naito clan, who expanded the castle grounds and built a 3-story tenshukaku (main keep). After more daimyo transfers, the castle finally came under the control of the Inagaki family in 1725, which held the castle through the end of Japan's feudal system which came about at as a result of the Meiji Coup of 1868.
Just some stone walls from the castle are all that is left. The Meiji government ordered the castle destroyed in the early 1870s. However, the castle's main keep was destroyed in the Ansei earthquake of 1854 and was never rebuilt.
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After I uploaded my creation for chapter 1 of the book of Boba Fett last week I proudly present to you my newest MOC, this time a scene from chapter 2.
ATTENTION!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!
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Fett and his entourage visit Garsa's Sanctuary, which is full of droids and patrons. Taking off his helmet, Fett meets with Garsa, who offers him a table. Fett explains that Mayor Mok Shaiz sent him here on the pretext that there is something that he should know. When Garsa gives a nervous look, Fett remarks that she is sweating like a gumpta on Mustafar. Garsa explains that "the Twins" have laid claim to their late cousin Jabba's bequest. Fett replies that he heard the Twins were preoccupied with Nal Hutta to bother with Tatooine.
The cantina grows silent as they hear drums beating in the background. Fett, Shand, and the Gamorreans walk outside to see a procession carrying two Hutts on a litter. As the litter approaches Fett's entourage, the Hutt brother tells Fett that they have business to discuss. Fett replies that this is his territory, prompting the Hutt brother to reiterate that this is Jabba's territory and now theirs. One of the drummers presents a tablet stating the Hutts' claim to Tatooine.
Fett rejects their claim, stating that he is the Daimyo of Mos Espa. The Hutts laugh, with the brother asking if this is so. An armed black Wookiee known as Black Krrsantan, who is armed with a heavy blaster, approaches Fett and his entourage. Fett is not intimidated, stating that these are not the death pits of Duur, and that he is not a sleeping Trandoshan guard. Fett replies that Mos Espa is his territory and tells them to go back to Nal Hutta. The Hutt sister speaks in Huttese. Her brother replies that Fett has upset his sister and that he is more patient than her, who wants to kill him.
As Shand and Krrsantan load their weapons, Fett explains that Jabba is gone and that his former majordomo Bib Fortuna usurped his territory. Since Fett killed him, all that belonged to Fortuna now belongs to him. Fett says that they will have to kill him for it. The two Hutt siblings speak. The Hutt brother says that bloodshed is bad for business and that this matter can be dealt with later, though he warns Fett to sleep lightly.
As the drummers beat their drums, the two Hutts withdraw. Black Krrsantan growls at Fett before walking away as well. Shand tells Fett that they will have to get permission to kill them since they are Hutts. Fett suggests that the matter is settled but accepts that it is not yet over. [...]
My creation shows the arrival of Jabba's cousins in the streets of Mos Espa. For the cousins I bought a second version of the Jabba minifigure (the one with the gray face to have a little difference between them).
Hopefully you enjoy the second chapter of the disney + series like I did and I hope you enjoy that creation too.
Greetings Kevin
Shōkozan Tōkei-ji (松岡山東慶寺), also known as Kakekomi-dera (駆け込み寺) or Enkiri-dera (縁切り寺), is a Buddhist temple and a former nunnery, the only survivor of a network of five nunneries called Amagozan (尼五山), in the city of Kamakura in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the Rinzai school of Zen's Engaku-ji branch, and was opened by Hōjō Sadatoki in 1285. It is best known as a historic refuge for women who were abused by their husbands.[1] It is for this reason sometimes referred to as the "Divorce Temple".
The temple was founded in the 8th year of Koan (1285) by nun Kakusan-ni, wife of Hōjō Tokimune (1251–1284), after her husband's death. Because it was then customary for a wife to become a nun after her husband's death, she decided to open the temple and dedicate it to the memory of her husband. She also made it a refuge for battered wives.
In an age when men could easily divorce their wives but wives had great difficulty divorcing their husbands, Tōkei-ji allowed women to become officially divorced after staying there for two years. Temple records show that, during the Tokugawa period alone, an estimated 2,000 women sought shelter there. The temple lost its right to concede divorce in 1873, when a new law was approved and the Court of Justice started to handle the cases.
The temple remained a nunnery for over 600 years and men could not enter until 1902, when a man took the post of abbot and Tōkei-ji came under the supervision of Engaku-ji. Before then, the chief nun was always an important figure, and once it even was a daughter of Emperor Go-Daigo. Tenshū-ni, the daughter and only survivor of Toyotomi Hideyori's family, son of Hideyoshi, entered Tōkei-ji following the Siege of Osaka. Such was the nunnery's prestige that its couriers did not need to prostrate themselves when they met a daimyō's procession.
The two main buildings of the complex are the Main Hall and the Suigetsu-dō, but the latter is not open to visitors. The temple's old Butsuden, an Important Cultural Property, was bought during the Meiji period by businessman Tomitaro Hara and is now in the garden he built, Yokohama's Sankei-en.
When I visited Kumamoto in February 2013, I was lucky to have an amazingly rich blue sky to provide a nice background for my external photos.
I think many of the photos from my trip showcase stone wall designs that were employed by Katō Kiyomasa, the daimyō who first built this castle. He really was a master castle builder. The Hosokawa, who received the Katō's 530,000 koku fief after it was repossessed by the shogunate in 1632, inherited one heck of a gorgeous and very formidable castle.
To put it in perspective, the grounds of the castle were a massive 980,000 square meters, and its perimeters covered an area out to 5.3 km. There were 49 turret towers, 18 tower gates and 29 regular castle gates.
The castle survived the Edo period without falling victim to fire or natural disasters, but in 1877, just before the start of the Satsuma rebellion, an accidental fire did break out that gutted the main keep, the palace and other important structures. Then in February of that same year, a rebel army from Satsuma (Kagoshima Prefecture), led by Saigō Takamori, laid siege to the castle for nearly two months. The castle was defended by the Imperial Japanese Army and withheld the siege, but more buildings were destroyed during the fighting. Today's castle is a fero-concrete reconstruction, but the honmaru goten (palace) was rebuilt using traditional material and opened in 1998.