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Imperial Palace tours becoming popular

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors cross Niju-bashi, or the Double Bridge, the main gateway to the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo. Tours of the palace are becoming popular this year, the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, the old name for Tokyo. Edo Castle, the seat of the Tokugawa shoguns, stood on the grounds of the palace.

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PM Abe receives porcelain gift

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) receives a sake server made of Imari Nabeshima style porcelain from a representative, wearing a traditional attire, of the porcelain industry in the city of Imari in southwestern Japan. At left in the back is Imari Mayor Yoshikazu Tsukabe. Imari Nabeshima porcelain wares were often used as gifts to shoguns and the imperial court during the Edo era (1603-1868). (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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The bell tower at Yushoin,Zojoji Temple,Shiba

Chokugaku Gate, the main entrance to the mausoleum of the 7th Shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu, and the bell tower are viewed from the south. There are carvings of dragons on the gateposts. The most opulent of the Tokugawa mausoleums at Zojoji Temple, it was the last built exclusively as a mausoleum. Subsequent shoguns were enshrined in existing mausoleums in accordance with the wishes of the 8th Shogun Yoshimune.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number93‐5‐0]

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The General's tomb,Zojoji Temple,Shiba

This is the gate in front of the pagoda of the 9th Shogun Tokugawa Ieshige (Shunshinin). No new mausoleums were constructed after the 8th Shogun Yoshimune, so the okuin (inner shrine) of Shunshinin was attached to that of Yushouin. This is the northernmost mausoleum at Zojoji Temple built for the Tokugawa shoguns.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Tamamura Kozaburo, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number80‐33‐0]

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The Sanmon Gate,Shiba Zojoji Temple

This is the bronze gate in front of the pagoda in the deepest part of Bunshoin Mausoleum. Two dragons, once ascending and one descending, are cast on the panels on the walls on both sides of the gate. Gates were built for the tombs of five shoguns in the north mausoleum, but this is the only one made of bronze. The gate survived the air raids of 1945 and currently is the gate to the restored Tokugawa family tomb.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:R. Stillfried, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number78‐30‐0]

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Shiba Zojoji Temple

Chokugaku Gate, the main entrance to the mausoleum of the 7th Shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu, and the bell tower are viewed from the south. There are carvings of dragons on the gateposts. The most opulent of the Tokugawa mausoleums at Zojoji Temple, it was the last built exclusively as a mausoleum. Subsequent shoguns were enshrined in existing mausoleums in accordance with the wishes of the 8th Shogun Yoshimune.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:Usui Shuzaburo?, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number65‐38‐0]

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The bell tower at Yushoin,Zojoji Temple,Shiba

Chokugaku Gate, the main entrance to the mausoleum of the 7th Shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu, and the bell tower are viewed from the south. There are carvings of dragons on the gateposts. The most opulent of the Tokugawa mausoleums at Zojoji Temple, it was the last built exclusively as a mausoleum. Subsequent shoguns were enshrined in existing mausoleums in accordance with the wishes of the 8th Shogun Yoshimune.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number53‐42‐0]

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Gallery in Shoguns Mausoleum at Zojoji Temple in Shiba

The corridor connecting the tombs of the Shoguns in Zojoji. Gold is generously used, and lavish see-through carvings are in the same style as the Toshogu.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number37‐65‐0]

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The five-story pagoda of Kaneiji Temple

Kaneiji Temple in Ueno enshrined the tombs of five Shoguns: Ietsuna, Tsunayoshi, Yoshimune, Ieharu and Iesada. The five-story tower was rebuilt and is now located within the Ueno Zoo.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number31‐3‐0]

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The bell tower of tukiji nishihonganji temple

The annex of Honganji Temple of the Jodo Shin Sect. The name of the temple is Sanenzan. It was embraced by Shogun Ieyasu and became the tomb site of the Shoguns family. The Taishido can be seen to the rear of the bell tower.==Date:unknown, Place:Tokyo, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number22‐10‐0]

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Hakone Shrine

Hakone Shinto Shrine was the centre of worship as the Hakone Gongen. Especially in the middle ages, it was revered by Kamakura Shoguns such as Minamoto Yoritomo, and it is the setting of the Tale of Soga. This picture was taken before 1896, because the Komainu (Korean style dogs) and the pines planted by Emperor Meiji are not seen.==Date:unknown, Place:Hakone, Photo:Ogawa Kazumasa, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number5‐24‐0]

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Imperial Palace tours becoming popular

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors cross Niju-bashi, or the Double Bridge, the main gateway to the Imperial Palace in central Tokyo. Tours of the palace are becoming popular this year, the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, the old name for Tokyo. Edo Castle, the seat of the Tokugawa shoguns, stood on the grounds of the palace. (Kyodo)