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*''Erected: 1710s''

*''Erected: [[1710]]''

*''Destroyed: [[1724]]/1''

*''Japanese'': 芝口御門 ''(Shibaguchi gomon)''

*''Japanese'': 芝口御門 ''(Shibaguchi gomon)''

The Shibaguchi Gate was a large and ornate gate constructed in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Edo]] in the 1710s at the suggestion of shogunal advisor [[Arai Hakuseki]]. It was later lost in a fire and was never rebuilt.

The Shibaguchi Gate was a large and ornate gate constructed in the Shiba neighborhood of [[Edo]] in [[1710]] at the suggestion of shogunal advisor [[Arai Hakuseki]]. It was later lost in a fire and was never rebuilt.

 

Not just a simple wooden gate, the Shibaguchi-gomon was an extensive ''masugata'' castle gate structure. It sat immediately at the northern end of the bridge at [[Shinbashi]] (which was renamed Shibaguchi-bashi, or Shibaguchi Bridge, at that time); crossing the bridge, one would enter a ''kabukimon'' style gate, and then turn right, watched from a ''watari-yagura'' guardtower and surrounded by high stone walls.

The gate's construction was accompanied by the reconstruction of the Naka-no-gomon, the chief southern gate into the Honmaru (central bailey) of [[Edo castle]]. Hakuseki believed that in accordance with [[Neo-Confucianism|Confucian]] philosophy and Chinese practice, the shogunal city and castle should have particularly impressive gates leading towards and into the castle from the south.<ref>This practice can be seen in the Wumen, Tiananmen, and Zhengyang-men of the [[Forbidden City]] in [[Beijing]], and the [[Namdaemun]] in [[Seoul]].</ref>

The gate's construction was accompanied by the reconstruction of the Naka-no-gomon, the chief southern gate into the Honmaru (central bailey) of [[Edo castle]]. Hakuseki believed that in accordance with [[Neo-Confucianism|Confucian]] philosophy and Chinese practice, the shogunal city and castle should have particularly impressive gates leading towards and into the castle from the south.<ref>This practice can be seen in the Wumen, Tiananmen, and Zhengyang-men of the [[Forbidden City]] in [[Beijing]], and the [[Namdaemun]] in [[Seoul]].</ref>

After Hakuseki fell from power around [[1716]], however, the governing philosophy of the shogunate returned to that of the [[Hayashi clan]], and numerous changes that Hakuseki made to shogunal ritual and ceremony were reversed. The Naka-no-gomon was torn down, and when the Shibaguchi Gate was later lost in a fire, no efforts were made to rebuild it.

After Hakuseki fell from power around [[1716]], however, the governing philosophy of the shogunate returned to that of the [[Hayashi clan]], and numerous changes that Hakuseki made to shogunal ritual and ceremony were reversed. The Naka-no-gomon was torn down, and when the Shibaguchi Gate was lost in a fire in [[1724]]/1, no efforts were made to rebuild it.

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*Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 148.

*Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 148.

*Watanabe Hiroshi 渡辺浩, “’Rei’ ‘Gobui’ ‘Miyabi’ – Tokugawa Seiken no girei to jugaku” 「『礼』『御武威』『雅び』－徳川政権の儀礼と儒学－」, in ''Kokusai kenkyû shûkai hôkokusho'' 国際研究集会報告書 vol 22, "Kuge to buke - sono hikaku bunmeishi-teki kenkyû" 公家と武家――その比較文明史的研究――, Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyû Center 国際日本文化研究センター (2004), 171-172.

*Watanabe Hiroshi 渡辺浩, “’Rei’ ‘Gobui’ ‘Miyabi’ – Tokugawa Seiken no girei to jugaku” 「『礼』『御武威』『雅び』－徳川政権の儀礼と儒学－」, in ''Kokusai kenkyû shûkai hôkokusho'' 国際研究集会報告書 vol 22, "Kuge to buke - sono hikaku bunmeishi-teki kenkyû" 公家と武家――その比較文明史的研究――, Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyû Center 国際日本文化研究センター (2004), 171-172.

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