桜田御門
Sakurada Gate
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Sakurada Gate, formally Soto-Sakurada Gate, is one of the gates of Edo Castle. Today it stands in the Outer Garden of the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo, facing the government offices of Kasumigaseki. This photo appears in the album Tokyo Keshiki Shashinban (Views of Tokyo), thought to have been published around 1893 (Meiji 26).
The gate is a masugata, a strongly defended layout in which an outer koraimon gate and an inner watari-yagura gate, topped by a long guardhouse, are set at right angles to each other. In 1860, just outside this gate, the chief minister Ii Naosuke was attacked by masterless samurai from Mito. The event is known as the Sakuradamon Incident.
Because its masugata survives complete, the gate was designated a national Important Cultural Property in 1961. People strolling along the moat still pass through it today.
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- 『東京景色写真版』（明治26年）
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