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Tokyo,

1910

Front View at Sakurada Gate of the Imperial Palace

The Sakurada Gate was the inner gate of Japan's Imperial Palace

This gate in Edo Palace was where visitors and petitioners to the rulers of Japan passed through. In 1860, Ii Naosuke, the Japanese feudal lord who signed a treaty of commerce with the United States in 1858 was assassinated outside the Sakurada Gate.