Etched Sorrow·Rakunan / Mukaijima

Ogura-ike Pond (Ninomaru-ike) Site

Ogura-ike, once the largest freshwater lake in the Kyoto basin, was split by Hideyoshi's embankments into the Great Pond, the Ninomaru Pond and others, then vanished entirely under the state land-reclamation begun in 1933. This spot, east of the Ogura embankment and south of Mukaijima Castle, is held to be the trace of the Ninomaru Pond, once a place of fishing and fowling.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.