Ninomaru Palace

Ninomaru Palace is part of the Nijo Castle Complex, located in the former capital of Japan Kyoto. It is one of the national treasures of Japan.

The notable feature of the Ninomaru Palace is the Uguisu-Bari - a nightingale, or singing, floor, it began from the entrance and led to the first large hall. Thanks to ingenious devices, wooden boards, when someone moved on them, made a creak, similar to bird chirping, hence the name.

The entire palace is decorated in classical Japanese style: the floor is covered with tatami, each room has only three walls, the fourth, which should separate the room from the corridor, no. More precisely, this is not a wall, but light sliding doors. The distance between the ceiling and the top of the door is decorated with rich carved ornaments with peacocks, various animals and plants. The pesky gloss of gold is softened by time and whitish twilight, into which white Japanese paper turns daylight. This paper is strung on wooden sliding frames that make up one long wall of the corridor and at the same time the outer wall of the palace. On hot summer days, you can wide open these doors, and then the enclosed room turns into a veranda, which overlooks one of the most beautiful gardens in Japan - the Ninomaru Garden.