Wadakura gate

Wadakura-mon is one of the gates leading to the eastern grounds of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, situated where the outer Wadakura moat opens toward the Marunouchi side of the palace. Its surviving structure includes the koraimon outer gate and watari-yagura watch-tower gate, with stone-faced foundations, white plaster walls, and tiled roofs in the Edo-castle vocabulary. Architectural subjects — gates, towers, temple halls, pagodas — run throughout Hiratsuka's catalogue, and the gate format suits his carving manner: large planar elements (wall, roof, stone base) yielding cleanly to the chisel, with finer cut work reserved for tile lines and woodwork joinery. The composition would frame the structure squarely or at a moderate angle, with the surrounding moat or paving treated as a reserved area of washi rather than rendered with shin-hanga atmospheric color.