Ote-mon Gate: Door panel .. [3(2) / 4(2)] The Ote-mon Gate was the main gate of the Tokugawa Shoguna

Ote-mon Gate: Door panel .. [3(2) / 4(2)] The Ote-mon Gate was the main gate of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s Edo Castle. Daimyos (feudal lords) used to come to attend ceremonies held inside the castle through this gate. A smaller gate and a larger gate form a right angle, the structure which was to slow the advance of intruders. Trapped between the two gates, intruders would come under attack from firing points of the larger gate. The larger gate was destroved in an air raid in April 1945 during the Second World War and was rebuilt in 1967. Tokyo, Kanto, Japan. -- source link

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