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The Sakurada mansion was also known as the ''shôzoku yashiki'' (lit. "costume mansion"), as it was there that the members of Ryukyuan missions changed costume on their way to and from formal audiences at [[Edo castle]].
The Sakurada mansion was also known as the ''shôzoku yashiki'' (lit. "costume mansion"), as it was there that the members of Ryukyuan missions changed costume on their way to and from formal audiences at [[Edo castle]].
In [[1883]], the former site of this mansion became the site of the [[Rokumeikan]], the premier Western-style venue for elite social events in [[Meiji period]] [[Tokyo]].<ref>Takatsu Takashi 高津孝, "Machi aruki Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo no machi" 「街歩き 琉球人行列と江戸の町」. ''Nihon kinsei seikatsu ehiki: Ryûkyûjin gyôretsu to Edo hen'' 日本近世生活絵引：琉球人行列と江戸編、Research Center for Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Institute for the Study of Japanese Folk Culture, Kanagawa University 神奈川大学日本常民文化研究所非文字資料研究センター (2020), 204.</ref>
==Takanawa Mansion==
==Takanawa Mansion==
The ''[[Shoheimaru|Shôheimaru]]'', a Western-style sailing ship built in Kagoshima, sat at anchor for a time in [[1855]] just off-shore from this ''kura-yashiki''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 79.</ref>
The ''[[Shoheimaru|Shôheimaru]]'', a Western-style sailing ship built in Kagoshima, sat at anchor for a time in [[1855]] just off-shore from this ''kura-yashiki''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 79.</ref>
This mansion was the site of a significant meeting between [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] and [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], at which Katsu presented the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogunate's]] formal capitulation to Saigô, thus halting Saigô's plans to take Edo castle by force. A monument to Saigô's and Katsu's success in making the fall of Edo relatively bloodless stands today on the site.
This mansion was also the site of a significant meeting between [[Saigo Takamori|Saigô Takamori]] and [[Katsu Kaishu|Katsu Kaishû]], at which Katsu presented the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogunate's]] formal capitulation to Saigô, thus halting Saigô's plans to take Edo castle by force. A monument to Saigô's and Katsu's success in making the fall of Edo relatively bloodless stands today on the site.
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