Shureimon
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thumb|Shureimon or Shurei no mon thumb|Shureimon as depicted on the 2000 yen note
is a gate in the Shuri neighborhood of Naha, the capital of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It was the second of Shuri Castle's main gates. Now it is the main gate to the castle complex. Chūzanmon was the first ceremonial gate to Shurijo, built around 1427 by King Shō Hashi, and it was demolished in 1907.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shureimon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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