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*''Japanese'': 皇居 ''(koukyo)''

*''Japanese'': 皇居 ''(koukyo)''

The Tokyo Imperial Palace, or ''kôkyo'' (lit. "Imperial residence"), completed in [[1888]], is the seat of the [[Emperor of Japan]]. Located on the former grounds of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns']] [[Edo castle]] at the center of [[Tokyo]], the palace compound includes imperial residences, meeting rooms, administrative offices, and ritual spaces, as well as several extensive private gardens and public parks, archives, and the Museum of the Imperial Collections, or ''[[Sannomaru Shozokan|Sannomaru Shôzôkan]]''. While the former sites of the ''honmaru'', ''ninomaru'', and ''sannomaru'' of Edo castle are today mostly empty, the palace buildings being located elsewhere in the compound, a number of other buildings from the time of the shoguns either survive or have been rebuilt, along with many of the compound's gates, and much of the foundational stone castle walls.

The Tokyo Imperial Palace, or ''kôkyo'' (lit. "Imperial residence"), completed in [[1888]], is the seat of the [[Emperor of Japan]]. Located on the former grounds of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns']] [[Edo castle]] at the center of [[Tokyo]], the palace compound includes imperial residences, meeting rooms, administrative offices, and ritual spaces, as well as several extensive private gardens and public parks, archives, and the Museum of the Imperial Collections, or ''[[Sannomaru Shozokan|Sannomaru Shôzôkan]]''. While the former sites of the ''honmaru'', ''ni-no-maru'', and ''sannomaru'' of Edo castle are today mostly empty, the palace buildings being located chiefly in the former ''nishi-no-maru'' area of the compound,<ref>Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - shôgun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo Shoseki (2008), 66.</ref> a number of other buildings from the time of the shoguns either survive or have been rebuilt, along with many of the compound's gates, and much of the foundational stone castle walls.

==History==

==History==