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NikkoGojyunoto, Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji YoshimotoHoto, Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto  Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto  Yomeimon, Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto  Yomeimon, Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2011-02, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto Karamon Gate, Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2005-03, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto Toshogu Shrine, Nikko2011-02, (C) Seiji Yoshimoto |
Nikkois a small histrical town located at 130km north of Tokyo. Nikko is famous for Toshogu, the most gorgeous shrine in Japan. Toshogu is the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan for more than 250 years since 1603. Yomeimon Gateis the most beautiful architecture in Toshogu. It is decorated with more than 500 wooden carvings of imaginary beasts including dragons, qilins and dragon horses. Twelve white pillars are with similar spiral-shaped carvings. One left pillar has reversed spiralis and is called "reversing amulet".More than 5000 elaborately decorated wooden carvings and a large amount of gold leaf were used to decorate the architecture in a way never seen in other shrines in Japan. Karaomon Gateis painted white and decorated with dragons of rosewood and ebony, and over 400 carvings of small flowers.
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This is an experimental page being prepared for NPO InterCoS to introduce Nikko.
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