Nogi shrine
The Nogi Shrine ( Japanese 乃 木 神社 , Nogi-jinja ) in Tokyo is dedicated to General Nogi Maresuke and his wife. It is located in the Akasaka neighborhood of Minato County .
General Nogi, especially known for the taking of Port Arthur in the Japanese Russian War , followed his wife to the Meiji - Tennō the day his funeral on September 13, to death. They followed an old, but at the time no longer practiced and therefore controversial act of vassal loyalty ( 殉 死 , junshi ).
The then mayor of the city of Tokyo , Sakatani Yoshirō , campaigned for the construction of a shrine , which was then approved in 1919 and built next to the property on Higashi-gaienmae Street in 1923. The shrine was destroyed in the air raids on Tokyo , but rebuilt after the war in 1962 according to plans by the architect Hiroshi Ōe (1913–1989). The shrine consists of the classic double structure of “ Haiden ” (prayer hall) and “ Honden ” (main hall), to which two torii lead.
In addition to the shrine, the Nogi wooden house and a brick granary have been preserved.
A number of other Nogi shrines were built in Japan, for example in Kyoto and Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture , from where Nogi's family came.
Nogi and his wife are buried in the Aoyama cemetery .
The hill or hillside path Nogizaka near the shrine and the underground station there were named after Nogi.
literature
- Nozawa, N. (Ed.): Tōkyōto no rekishi sampo (chū). Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo 2000, ISBN 4-634-29630-6 .
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Coordinates: 35 ° 40 ′ 8 ″ N , 139 ° 43 ′ 41 ″ E