True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Three-Story Tower in the Inner Keep
by Inoue Yasuji
Description
The three-story tower in the inner keep of Edo Castle — one of the secondary towers of the old fortification complex — is depicted here as a monument to the feudal engineering that shaped Tokyo's topography. The castle's inner keep had lost its primary donjon in the great 1657 fire and was never rebuilt, but secondary towers survived into the Meiji period as relics of shogunal power. Yasuji's print documents these architectural survivals with the precision of a topographic artist who understood that the built fabric of the past was disappearing under the pressure of modernization.
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True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Three-Story Tower in the Inner Keep was created by Inoue Yasuji (井上安治).
True Pictures of Famous Places in Tokyo: Three-Story Tower in the Inner Keep depicts castles, architecture, and pagodas, set at Tokyo.