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Necessary Necessary. Among various decorations, the most noteworthy are the roof tiles of Himeji Castle. Since clay of good quality is available in Funatsu-cho, Himeji City, Hyogo Prefecture, roof tiles have been manufactured actively since the s. To honor this background, roof tiles from Koyoseiga located in Funatsu-cho were used in the repair work. Traditional roof tiles such as Shachigawara roof tiles in the form of Shachihoko and Onigawara rooftiles in the form of oni, a Japanese demon were placed all over the castle complex, and Himeji Castle was "reborn" more beautifully and whiter.
Koyoseiga offers tours around the factory, where visitors can see the roof tiles used in the construction. With guidance about tiles from active artisans, you can learn about the tools used in the factory, through seeing and touching them. Also, after the tour, you can try making roof tiles and clay crafting with the artisans. In tile crafting, you can make "Ibushigawara," a type of roof tile that is actually used for roofs.
Also, in clay crafting, you can manually shape a Sachihoko or the face of an oni. Your very own baked clay works are mailed to your house later on, and it serves for a perfect unique memory of your trip. Here is some information about an online app and tourist guides that are essential to tour around Himeji Castle. You should definitely download the official app to take with you on a tour around Himeji Castle.
If you hold up your smartphone at sites with an app sign, you can see animation or get trivia on the app. The app has other gimmicks you won't know about until you actually use it. You can download it for free. In Himeji Castle, tour guides who speak Japanese and other languages provide detailed information including history of the castle.
Guidance in other languages are provided free of charge by local volunteers. Neither type of guides require reservations. You can apply for the tour guide service at the reception of the castle. In Himeji Castle, a staple tourist spot in Himeji City, various seasonal events are held every year. Illuminated Himeji Castle. Every year, illumination events are held from autumn to early winter. A fanciful atmosphere is produced not only around the Tenshu but also in the square of the castle complex.
Please check the website for details including the dates and times. Cherry blossoms at Himeji Castle. Himeji Castle has been frequently called "the White Egret Castle," because of its beautiful white external appearance similar to an egret with its wings open.
Himeji Castle is attracting attention again especially because the repair work is done. How about visiting the historic castle that has guarded the city of Himeji for hundreds of years? In addition to Himeji Castle, Himeji Park also has a variety of tourist attractions, such as zoos and art museums.
Koko-en Garden. An essential part of Himeji Park is the Koko-en Garden, which is located in the western part of the park. The garden park is popular since you can see the national treasure, Himeji Castle, and there are nine gardens with different themes within the premises. The area which Terumasa ruled over, the districts of Harima, Bizen, and Awaji, was filled with sympathizers of the Toyotomi clan.
Thus Himeji Castle played a crucial role in enabling Terumasa to assert his rule over the districts. Some historians believe over 25,, man days were spent on the construction of the castle, which included a five-storied tenshu and a middle and outer moat. The property boundaries follow the moats around the outer walled zone, except in the southeast.
In the property zone, the eighty-two buildings that include the donjon complex, ramparts, gates, and stone walls have fully retained their original composition and condition dating back to the early 17th century, although some of the buildings of Himeji-jo were lost in the process of historical change.
The feudal masters of the castle kept it in good order with regular repair campaigns in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. There has been some loss of buildings over time. After the national government took over the site, part of the west bailey and samurai houses were replaced by military buildings. These buildings were removed in and replaced by public buildings.
However, these losses can be considered minor one, and total integrity has been kept. Thus, Himeji-jo perfectly preserves the interior and exterior characteristics of a 17th century Japanese castle, and integrity is ensured in the contexts of both wholeness and intactness. The use of new materials is rigorously controlled, and all important proposals should be discussed and approved by the council. Buildings added to the site in the 19th or 20th centuries have been removed.
The only modern intrusion has been the insertion of the reinforced concrete foundation raft, which was justified on the grounds that the process of deformation of the structures due to the weakness of the subsoil would inevitably lead to catastrophic collapse in a region of high seismic activity.
Incompatible interventions, such as doors and windows, that occurred in earlier work, have been replaced with appropriate elements when enough information was available on the form and substance of the originals. Since the beginning of the Japanese Modern period in , the national government has protected the property in close cooperation with local governments. Under the law, proposed alterations to the existing state of the property are restricted, and any alteration must be approved by the national government.
Development pressure in the hectare buffer zone is controlled by the Himeji City Urban Design Ordinance, the regulatory power of which was reinforced in under the Landscape Law.
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