Nagoya Castle: interior view in Honmaru Palace showing painted shoji screens.

Object Details

General: The site was visited by the Garden Club of America tour on May 21, 1935.; The palace was destroyed in an air raid in May 1945, but many of the removable painted panels were saved and are being incorporated into a full-scale restoration project scheduled for completion in 2018.

Place: Japan -- Nagoya; Nagoya Castle (Nagoya, Japan); Japan -- Aichi prefecture -- Nagoya

See more items in: The Garden Club of America collection; The Garden Club of America collection / Series 2: International Garden Images / Japan / JA008: Nagoya -- Nagoya Castle

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Collection Citation: Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, The Garden Club of America collection.

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