The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Zojo-ji
The gate is the oldest wooden structure I can show you in central Tokyo. Stand under it and understand that those timbers are from the year the first Pilgrim ships landed in
Tokugawa funerary temple and one of the largest Jodo Buddhist complexes in eastern Japan. The main gate, Sangedatsumon, is original 1622 construction — almost nothing else survived the 1945 bombing.
— Hana, The Historian
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