Shinpuku-ji
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Shinpuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in the Shiba neighborhood of Tokyo, near Atago Shrine. It notably provided lodgings in the 1850s for a number of foreign dignitaries, including Dutch commissioner Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius, Russian envoy Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin, and French envoy Jean Baptiste Louis Baron Gros.
References
- Plaques on-site.
- Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 520.; vol 3., 5, 41.
