Castle
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Tsukimi Yagura (literally: “Moon-viewing Tower”) is one of the very few original remaining parts of the original Tamamo-jo (aka Takamatsu’s castle). It used to stand by the water, but nowadays, a street and part of the port are between the tower and the water.
Tamamo-jō Tsukimi Yagura (Takamatsu Castle’s Moon-viewing tower) in Takamatsu. One of the few remaining original parts of the castle.
There are oni everywhere on Megijima, but if you go, chances are that this is the first one you’ll see: I find it interesting to see how distances are compressed on the picture. Takamatsu, right behind seems that it’s just a few hundred meters away, when it’s […]
The other day I was thinking that maybe it’s time that I visit Marugame Castle again one of these days.
I think it’s seriously time I visit Marugame Castle again. It is one of the few (12 I think) remaining castles in Japan that hasn’t been rebuilt (in other terms, the main tower is the original from the Edo Period). It is also said to be the smallest […]
Far from being my best picture, I still like it somehow. In case you’re wondering such fish on the roofs of Japanese castles and houses are called Shachihoko.
As I mentioned before, I’m both fascinated and ambivalent about the fact and the way Japanese people reconstruct their old destroyed castles. However, I heard that they’re trying to do things right with Takamatsu’s castle (i.e. rebuild it as close as possible to the original, no funky things like […]