A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle ... “It is a groundbreaking discovery of the castle’s remains that we could have seen only in drawings or other records,” said an official ...

Stone walls from the Edo Castle, thought to be about 400-years ... the condition of soil on the structure, and drawings from the time. The field excavation survey was conducted from November ...

With November drawing to a close ... wooden portals of the Imperial Palace's Otemon Gate. An entrance to Edo Castle during the 250-odd years that Edo (present-day Tokyo) was the Tokugawa ...

Seizing Edo, they rapidly built up their military presence in the southern Kanto Plain to such a point that, in 1180, Shigenaga, the second clan head, was asked by Minamoto Yoritomo (1147-99) to ...