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It's the season of limited exhibits! This time I'm featuring the interior of the Sawaguchi Tamon Yagura at Hikone Castle. It's the left side of buildings separated by the road and masugata gate at the beginning of the video below. This yagura is open to the public from Feb 13 to March 15 (2024) to

Hikone Castle - Sawaguchi Tamon Yagura Special Exhibit

佐和口多聞櫓特別公開

It's the season of limited exhibits! This time I'm featuring the interior of the Sawaguchi Tamon Yagura at Hikone Castle. It's the left side of buildings separated by the road and masugata gate at the beginning of the video below. This yagura is open to the public from Feb 13 to March 15 (2024) to continute to attract visitors to the castle while the main keep undergoes repairs. A couple features to note in the video are first the wavy looking walls. This is a result of plaster covering the support beams. You will also note that some of the walls are flat and thicker towards the bottom. These outside facing walls have been made thicker to help prevent bullets passing through. This corresponds to the "left" side throughout most of the video. There is also a white plastered wall with thick doors around the middle of the corridor. This is a firewall and the plaster extends all the way through the roof to help prevent the spread of fire. I have many photos of the interior too but the video does a good job of showing it too so I'll post this first and post some photos later.

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