A masugata (box-shaped) gate on the north side of the honmaru and ninomaru of Edo Castle, one of its principal gates alongside Otemon and Sakuradamon. Known as the "Mitsubone-mon" (Ladies' Gate) used by the women, merchants, physicians and priests of the O-oku inner palace, it also served as the "Fujo-mon" (Impure Gate) through which criminals and the dead were removed from the castle. Tradition h…

A masugata gate on the north side of the honmaru of Edo Castle, completed in the Genna era (1615–1624). It served as the "Mitsubone-mon" gate of the O-oku and as the "Fujo-mon" through which criminals and the dead were removed. The current gate was reconstructed in 1986, while the stone walls and mo…