Photograph of the Yomei-mon gate, Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko, Japan

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Photograph of the Yomei-mon gate, Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko, Japan

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TAPUHI

Description

View of the Yomei-mon gate, Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko, Japan. Photographed by Thomas Pringle in 1900. After entering the front gate of the temple, a path flanked by buildings such as treasuries, the sacred stable, and the Sutra Repository, leads to the entrance to the main courtyard. This is the Yomei-mon gate which also includes a gatehouse in its second story. The Tosho-gu Shrine was built in 1616-1617 as the mausoleum or mortuary temple for the Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu(1542-1616). Ieyasu wa...

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Image

Date created

1900

URL

http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22883832

Locations

Nikko / Japan

Related subjects

Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1542-1616 / Kora Munehiro, 1574-1646 / Architecture / Japan / Buildings / Sepulchral monuments / Temples / Nikkō Tōshōgu / Nikko

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