Japan’s Famous Landmarks
Yomeimon Detail, Nikko
A detail from the carved woodwork of the Yomeimon, or Gate of Sunlight in Nikko. Some 130,000 craftsmen worked with an unlimited budget on the woodwork of Toshogu shrine, built in 1636 in honor of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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