The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at ...

Nagoya Castle is known for the golden shachihoko “tiger-fish” ornaments that adorn the main tower ... was in the eyes of the Edo shogunate. The five-story keep tower was adorned with ...

It is common knowledge that the tower keep at Edo Castle was rebuilt by the second ... domain" (ruled by feudal lords related to the three main branches of the Tokugawa family), it was probably ...

After its main tower was demolished in the Meiji ... fortress was described as “thriving due to the castle” in a folk song during the Edo Period. Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura called in ...

Make your way back to Benkei-bashi through the main tower, stopping to check out the shops and restaurants ... where it could stand guard over Edo Castle. Although the current buildings are post-war, ...

What's done is done. But what if a historic negotiation over the surrender of Edo Castle between Saigo Takamori, who led the Imperial forces during the fall of Edo, and Katsu Kaishu, the shogunate ...

TOKYO -- Stone walls from the Edo Castle thought to date back about 400 years, the oldest still existing from the structure, have been discovered at the renovation site of a museum at the Imperial ...