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Hamarikyu Gardens is a public park alongside Tokyo Bay next to the futuristic Shiodome district. The park is at the mouth of the Sumida River and is a landscaped stroll garden surrounding Shioiri Pond, whose level changes with the tides. The park is surrounded by a moat filled by Tokyo Bay and was once the site of a villa of a feudal lord. It later became the Imperial guesthouse. In 1946 it became a public park. Traditional falcon and goshawk hunting techniques are demonstrated daily. I can't believe I missed that!
A Vic Viper style ship with apposable directional dorsal boosters and apposable main cannons (with actual firing play action) designed for aerospace combat.
A closer view of Uto-Yagura.
Note patterns on tiles of edge of the roof was called "Kamon" in Japanese means a family crest.
The Japanese words "Ka" and "mon" mean "family" and "crest", respectively.
You may see the 2 patterns of Kamon in this photo.
The first of crest on the lower roof is called "Tomoe-mon" crest. It was used as a charm against fires by Kiyomasa Kato, the first feudal load of the castle.
Another one on the roof of a gable is called "Kikyo-mon" crest ("Kikyou" is "a Chinese bellflower").
Apparently used to belong to the Maeda clan daimyo.
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Kenroku-en Garden, located in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is one of the three outstanding gardens in Japan.
手前に徽軫灯籠（ことじとうろう）、奥に見えるのは池の西南岸に設けられた内橋亭（うちはしてい）
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兼六園・石川県金沢市
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Matsumoto Castle (松本城, Matsumoto-jō?) is one of Japan's finest historic castles. It is located in the city of Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture and is within easy reach of Tokyo by road or rail.
The keep (tenshukaku), which was completed in the late 16th century, maintains its original wooden interiors and external stonework. It is listed as a National Treasure of Japan.
Matsumoto Castle is a flatland castle (hirajiro) because it is not built on a hilltop or amid rivers, but on a plain. Its complete defences would have included an extensive system of inter-connecting walls, moats and gatehouses.
In 1872, following the Meiji Restoration, the site, like many former daimyos' castles, was sold at auction for redevelopment. However, when news broke that the keep was going to be demolished, an influential figure from Matsumoto, Ichikawa Ryōzō, along with residents from Matsumoto started a campaign to save the building. Their efforts were rewarded when the tower was acquired by the city government.[1]
In the late Meiji period the keep started to lean to one side. An old picture (shown below) clearly shows how the keep looked like then. It was because of neglect coupled with a structural defect, but a lot of people believed the story of Tada Kasuke's curse[2].
A local high school principal, Kobayashi Unari, decided to renovate the castle and appealed for funds. [3] The castle underwent "the great Meiji renovation" between 1903-1913[4]. It underwent another renovation "the great Shōwa renovation" in the period 1950-1955[5].
In 1990, the Kuromon-Ninomon (second gate of the Black Gate) and sodebei (side wall) were reconstructed. The square drum gate was reconstructed in 1999.
There is a plan for restoring the soto-bori(outer moat) which was reclaimed for a residential zone[6].
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The castle's origins go back to the Sengoku period. At that time Shimadachi Sadanaga of the Ogasawara clan built a fort on this site in 1504 which was originally called Fukashi Castle. In 1550 it came under the rule of the Takeda clan and then Tokugawa Ieyasu.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi transferred Ieyasu to the Kantō region, he placed Ishikawa Norimasa in charge of Matsumoto. Norimasa and his son Yasunaga built the tower and other parts of the castle, including the three towers: the keep and the small tower in the northwest, both begun in 1590, and the Watari Tower; the residence; the drum gate; the black gate, the Tsukimi Yagura, the moat, the innermost bailey, the second bailey, the third bailey, and the sub-floors in the castle, much as they are today. They were also instrumental in laying out the castle town and its infrastructure. It is believed much of the castle was completed by 1593–94.
During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate established the Matsumoto Domain, of which the Matsudaira, Mizuno and others were the daimyo.
For the next 280 years until the abolition of the feudal system in the Meiji Restoration, the castle was ruled by the 23 lords of Matsumoto representing six different daimyo families. In this period the stronghold was also known as Crow Castle (烏城, Karasu-jo?) because its black walls and roofs looked like spreading wings.
In 1952 the keep, Inui-ko-tenshu (small northern tower), Watari-yagura (roofed passage), Tatsumi-tsuke-yagura (southern wing), and Tsukimi-yagura (moon-viewing room) were designated as national treasures.
The second floor of the main keep features a gun museum, Teppo Gura, with a collection of guns, armor and other weapons.
The Omura family brought this area up from nothing. The other Daimyo said they were daft to build a castle in a swamp but they built it all the same just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So they built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So they built a third one. That burned down, fell over and then sank into the swamp.
Walking along the old Nagasaki Kaido.
Ōmura-shuku
Azai Nagamasa (1545-28/8/1573), là con trai của Azai Hisamasa, một daimyo vùng Omi. Nagamasa đã có nhiều chiến tích trên chiến trường cùng Rokkaku Yoaka và Saito Katsuoki. Những trận đánh tiêu biểu mà Nagamasa đã tham gia là trận Anegawa và trận vây hãm thành Odani.
Ông lấy em gái Oda Nobunaga là Oichi, nhưng lại liên minh với gia tộc Asakura và các thầy tu ở núi Hiei. Ông đã từng đánh bại Nobunaga và Tokugawa Ieyasu trong trận Anegawa (1570).
1573, khi Oda Nobunaga vây hãm thành Odani, Nagamasa không hi vọng vào một chiến thắng, ông đã chọn seppuku để đổi lấy mạng sống cho con gái của ông và đã thuyết phục Oichi quay về với gia tộc Oda cùng với những người con của nàng.
Ba người con gái của ông sau này đã trở nên nổi tiếng:
\Chacha, hay còn gọi là Yodo dono, là vợ thứ hai của Toyotomi Hideyoshi mẹ của Toyotomi Hideyori.
\Hatsu, vợ của Kyogoku Takatsugu.
\Oeyo, hay còn gọi là Sugenin, vợ thứ hai của Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, mẹ của Tokugawa Iemitsu.
3- Jardin caché de Mito Tokugawa (水戸徳川家). Photo d'un parc proche de la rivière Sumida (隅田川), ancien jardin de la résidence d'un important daimyō (titre noble).
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(I'm not really self-obsessed, but I can understand how somebody looking at the my photos might get that impression.)
This is Mashita Nagamori (増田 長盛, 1545 – June 23, 1615) during the annual Hō-Taikō Hanami Gyōretsu (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's cherry blossom viewing parade - 豊太閤花見行列) at Daigo-ji temple (醍醐寺) in Kyoto. He was a daimyo in Azuchi-Momoyama period, and one of the Go-Bugyō appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Young Japanese maple (momiji) start to unfurl from their buds on the grounds of the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo. That blury gray matter in the background is a pond.
The garden of the New Otani Hotel in Tokyo stands on the property that was once the primary yashiki (estate) of the great Sengoku period feudal lord, Katō Kiyomasa (1562-1611). Kiyomasa was a trusted retainer and general of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the warlord who unified Japan in the wake of Oda Nobunaga’s assassination in 1582. Kiyomasa rose to fame during the battle of Shizugatake and soon found himself at the vanguard of many of Hideyoshi’s campaigns, including the invasion of Korea in 1592, in which Kiyomasa’s reputation as a master tactician, fierce fighter, castle builder and as a cruel man grew. To this day, the mere mention of Kiyomasa’s name in Korea is sure to bring a frown. Although loyal to the Toyotomi, if there was one thing that Kiyomasa hated more than Christianity and poor martial spirit among the samurai, it was Ishida Mitsunari, leader of the Western coalition of daimyo that opposed the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu. It was this hatred of Mitsunari that drove Kiyomasa into the Tokugawa camp where he played a pivotal role in the Kyushu theatre of the Sekigahara campaign in 1600. As a result of his service, Kiyomasa was rewarded by becoming one of the elite daimyo who were allowed to build his Edo estate near the shogun’s castle in the upscale area that became known as Kioi-cho, named after the elite Kii Tokugawa, Owari Tokugawa and Ii daimyo families that kept their residences in this area.
As Kiyomasa was loyal to the house of Toyotomi and as a final showdown between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi grew, the Tokugawa began to have their doubts about where Kiyomasa’s ultimate loyalty rested. Fearful of having to face this fierce and influential warlord on the opposing side of the battlefield when the fighting would inevitably erupt in 1615, it has been suggested that the Tokugawa had him poisoned. Shortly after the fall of the Toyotomi, Kiyomasa’s son was accused of disloyalty (most likely a trumped up charge) and the family’s fief in Kumamoto, Kyushu was seized by the shogunate and the clan was abolished. Soon after this, the grounds of the Katō estate in Tokyo were given to the Ii family.
When the New Otani Hotel was constructed, it was decided to keep the traditional Japanese garden intact. Today the garden covers more than 10 acres and has over 800 trees, 10,000 flowering plants, ponds, a waterfall, and 42 stone lanterns, many of which date back from the Edo (1603-1868) and the Kamakura (1192-1333) periods.
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