Japan

Nihonmatsu Castle - Minowa Gate

At Nihonmatsu Castle, the most conspicuous gateway is also a reminder that a historic landscape can carry several ages at once. Minowa Gate rises above stone walls in Kasumigajo Park, where paths lead through gardens and up toward the former inner bailey. The gate looks like an entrance to a feudal stronghold; the structure standing here today, however, was rebuilt in 1982. To understand it is to read both the castle that was lost in…...