Timon Screech is Professor of the History of Art at SOAS, University of London. He is currently on research leave in Tokyo preparing a book on Nikko.

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Half-length portrait of kabuki actor Kawarazaki Gonjuro as Ono no Yorikaze (detail; 1863), Utagawa Kunisada. Photo: © Trustees of the British Museum

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Buildings at the main entrance to the Toshogu Shrine, Nikko (photo: 2016).

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The sacred mountainside site of Nikko comprises both Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines – many of which have been restored to their 17th-century splendour

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