The five-story pagoda,Yanaka Tennoji Temple

The cemetery at the Tendai Sect temple Tenoji,which is portrayed in the Koda Rohan novel Gojunoto . To the fore is a rickshaw, with a cart in the distance. Pine and cherry trees line the road. The five-story pagoda was lost in a fire lit by lovers commiting suicide in 1957. Only the founding stones remain today. The tomb of Tokugawa Yoshinobu stands here.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:A. Farsari, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number20‐20‐0]

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