{"id":22075,"date":"2019-09-21T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2020-10-04T10:21:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T17:21:26","slug":"gardens-and-interiors-of-nijo-castle-in-kyoto-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/22075","title":{"rendered":"Gardens and Interiors of Nij\u014d Castle in Ky\u014dto, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nij\u014d Castle is located in Ky\u014dto, Japan was built for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first sh\u014dgun<\/em>, but the structure wasn’t completed until 1621, ten years after Tokugawa Ieyasu’s death. Nij\u014d Castle did serve as the Ky\u014dto residence for the third sh\u014dgun<\/em> and the sh\u014dgun<\/em>s who followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ninomaru <\/em>Palace is divided into several rooms for guests, for audiences with the shogun<\/em>, and for the shogun<\/em>‘s residence. The floors connecting the rooms where guests were allowed to linger make chirping noises when walked upon when the flooring nails scrape against the wood. Legend says that these “nightingale floors” serve to provide warning that someone is moving about the palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nij\u014d<\/a>
Nij\u014d Castle Garden
<\/strong>SOURCE: Nij\u014d Castle Garden (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Ninomaru<\/a>
Ninomaru <\/em>Garden – 1
<\/strong>SOURCE: Ninomaru Garden – 1 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Ninomaru<\/a>
Ninomaru<\/em> Garden – 2<\/strong>
SOURCE: Ninomaru Garden – 2 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 1
<\/strong>SOURCE: Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 1 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Nij\u014d<\/a>
Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 2
<\/strong>SOURCE: Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 2 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Nij\u014d<\/a>
Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 3
<\/strong>SOURCE: Nij\u014d Castle Interior – 3 (Ky\u014dto, Ky\u014dto Prefecture, Honshu, Japan); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 25 April 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2019 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nij\u014d Castle is located in Ky\u014dto, Japan was built for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first sh\u014dgun, but the structure wasn’t completed until 1621, ten years after Tokugawa Ieyasu’s death. Nij\u014d Castle did serve as the Ky\u014dto residence for the third sh\u014dgun … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[440],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-kyoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-5K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22232,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}