Kyoto Imperial Palace (Gosho) <-(215K)	Served as the imperial palace until the end of the Edo Period. It was erected during the Namboku-cho Period in the 14th century. It underwent repeated improvements and extensions at the order of warlords Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu before a big fire in 1788 burned it down. The present buildings are those reconstructed in the 19th century. On the palace grounds are the Shishinden (a hall for state ceremonies), Seiryoden, Kogosho (ceremonial hall) and Gogakumonsho (a place for scholarly study).
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