All that remains of this once (in)famous site is a stone pillar (first visual) to mark its location. The second visual is a model of how this site might have looked like. Which site?Answer: The Rashomon gate which inspired the short story which inspired Kurosawa's famous film by the same name. Debasish, Jamie and Akshay got it. Well done.
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Rashomon Gate
Rashōmon (羅城門, Rajōmon?) was the gate built at the southern end of the monumental Suzaku Avenue in the ancient Japanese cities of Heijō-kyō (Nara) and Heian-kyō (Kyoto), in accordance with the Chinese grid-patterned city layout. At the other far north-end of Suzaku Avenue, one would reach the Suzakumon Gate, the main entrance to the palace zone. As of 2007, the southern end of Suzaku Avenue and the possible remainder of the equivalent gate in Fujiwara-kyō (Kashihara) are yet to be discovered.
rashomon.the southern gate of the then ruined city of Kyoto, where unclaimed corpses were sometimes dumped. (wikipedia)
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