Japanese palaces also reflect this tendency to connect with the natural environment, leading to a rambling horizontal network of rooms linked by covered walkways, as here, on Miyajima Island, near Hiroshima, in the Itsukushima Palace (now Shrine). The first palace on this site was built in the latter half of the 6th century, but the current buildings date from 1168. Note the lights in the stone lantern. It was getting late, and they came on as we were walking by.
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