Jun 30, 2025

It is Edo Castle’s inner Sakurada gate — the quiet twin of the outer Sakurada-mon, where a shogunal regent was cut down in the snow in 1860. The name is the kikyō, a five-petaled balloon flower stamped on the tiles, a star in plaster. The keep burned in 1657 and was never rebuilt; this turret-gate is still the door, the place palace tours line up to walk into the Emperor’s house.

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