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Well at Meiji Shrine said to be 'power spot'

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors take pictures of ''Kiyomasa no Ido'' (Kiyomasa's well) with their cellphones in a garden of Tokyo's Meiji Shrine on Dec. 16, 2010. The site became famous as a ''power spot,'' after television programs featured it with people claiming their luck improved when they used pictures of the well as background screens on their cellphones.

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Boy falls to death through skylight window on school roof

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check a broken rooftop skylight window at an elementary school in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on June 18 after Kiyomasa Nakamura, a sixth grader at the school, broke it and fell to his death.

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Kato Kiyomasa - Lord of Kumamoto

Kato Kiyomasa (1562-1611) - Lord of Kumamoto (1587-1611). Date: circa 1610

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Boy falls to death through skylight window on school roof

TOKYO, Japan - Police officers check a broken rooftop skylight window at an elementary school in Tokyo's Suginami Ward on June 18 after Kiyomasa Nakamura, a sixth grader at the school, broke it and fell to his death. (Kyodo)

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Ikegami Honmonji Temple

Visitors to the temple saw this scene after passing through the front gate (existent) built between 1688 and 1704, going up the stairs donated by Kato Kiyomasa and installed between 1596 and 1615, and then passing through the sanmon gate built along with the five-story pagoda by the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1608. The building on the left is the drum tower where ceremonial drums were stored. Both the gate and the drum tower were destroyed in World War II. The 29.5-meter pagoda however survived and still stands today as the oldest pagoda in the Kanto region and a National Important Cultural Asset. Mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number59‐19‐0]

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Ikegami Honmonji Temple

Visitors to the temple saw this scene after passing through the front gate (existent) built between 1688 and 1704, going up the stairs donated by Kato Kiyomasa and installed between 1596 and 1615, and then passing through the sanmon gate built along with the five-story pagoda by the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1608. The building on the left is the drum tower where ceremonial drums were stored. Both the gate and the drum tower were destroyed in World War II. The 29.5-meter pagoda however survived and still stands today as the oldest pagoda in the Kanto region and a National Important Cultural Asset. Mid-Meiji Period.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐2‐0]

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Nagoya Castle

Nagoya castle with its Golden Dolphin-like fish. It is said Kato Kiyomasa built the castle, but in fact he was in charge of building the stone fence only. During the Edo era, at one time the Han's finances were so poor that the Golden Dolphin-like fish was changed into an inferior type casting.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagoya, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number38‐2‐0]

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Kumamoto Castle

This picture was taken in the early years of the Meiji era. With the existence of the Kato Kiyomasa Shrine, the date of the photo can be estimated. The building of the shrine built in 1871 was moved to the Kyomachidai in 1874. It is a picture very similar to the pictures numbered 12-2 and 16-34.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Uchida Kuichi, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number26‐11‐0]

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Kumamoto Castle

A photo almost the same as the photo numbered 12-2. The time of photography can be determined from the existence of the Kato Kiyomasa Shrine in the fore. The construction of the building in the shrine began in 1872, and in 1875, it was moved to the Kyomachidai. The two castle towers were later lost in fire. The present castle tower was rebuilt in 1960.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number16‐34‐0]

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Kumamoto Castle

Built by Kato Kiyomasa, Kumamoto Castle has large and small castle towers and is famous for its strong stone walls. It was completed in 1607. The torii is the entrance to Kato Kiyomasa Shrine, whiich was built within Kumamoto Castle in 1872 and called Nishikiyama Shrine. This photo is believed to be developed from the same negative as the photo in the Leiden University collection.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number12‐2‐0]

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Honmyoji temple

Honmyoji is a Nichiren temple in Kumamoto City. It is the family temple of feudal lord Kato Kiyomasa. There is a Jochiro dedicated to Kiyomasa. Pilgrims to this temple increased with the spread of interest in Kiyomasa, and tea houses began to open along both sides of the stone steps as in this picture. The shakyo (copying of sutras) sessions called Tonsha kai conducted at Honmyoji Temple are famous.==Date:unknown, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number6‐28‐0]

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Well at Meiji Shrine said to be 'power spot'

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors take pictures of ''Kiyomasa no Ido'' (Kiyomasa's well) with their cellphones in a garden of Tokyo's Meiji Shrine on Dec. 16, 2010. The site became famous as a ''power spot,'' after television programs featured it with people claiming their luck improved when they used pictures of the well as background screens on their cellphones. (Kyodo)

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Graveyard of Kato Kiyomasa

Graveyard of Kato Kiyomasa==Date:about 1874, Place:Kumamoto, Photo:Tomishige Rihei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)