The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Imperial Palace East Gardens
I walk here specifically to stand on the keep mound. Nothing marks the center of power in Edo more concretely than an absence.
The stonework is Edo-period castle construction. Tokugawa engineers cut those blocks. The garden sits on Edo Castle's innermost keep — which burned in 1657 and was never rebuilt.
— Hana, The Historian
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