Ikegami Honmonji Temple（3） IKEGAMI PAGODA [ID] 2613 [Photographer] unknown [Album] [Place] Tokyo [Date] unknown [Color] color [Size] 265x207 [Cabinet] 53-2-0 [Keyword] temple   Photographs of the same title Visitors to the temple saw this scene after passing through the front gate (existent) built between 1688 and 1704, going up the stairs donated by Kato Kiyomasa and installed between 1596 and 1615, and then passing through the sanmon gate built along with the five-story pagoda by the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in 1608. The building on the left is the drum tower where ceremonial drums were stored. Both the gate and the drum tower were destroyed in World War II. The 29.5-meter pagoda however survived and still stands today as the oldest pagoda in the Kanto region and a National Important Cultural Asset. Mid-Meiji Period.