Historical clue formulations

• City whose Fushimi Inari shrine features 10,000+ red torii gates — 2025-08-03
• Former capital of Japan — 2024-08-27
• Capital of Japan until 1868 — 2024-02-04
• City with the Temple of the Golden Pavilion — 2023-08-08
• Home of Nijo Castle, built by the Tokugawa shogunate — 2022-08-04
• Capital of Japan for more than a thousand years — 2021-12-07
• Where Nintendo is headquartered — 2021-12-01
• Former world capital whose name means "capital city" — 2019-12-20
• Noncapital city whose name means "capital city" — 2019-08-11
• Japan's so-called "City of Ten Thousand Shrines" — 2016-02-22
• ___ Protocol (1997 agreement) — 2012-09-13
• Golden Pavilion setting — 2012-01-21
• Former Japanese capital — 2011-08-16
• Climate-change protocol city — 2010-11-30
• Former capital of Japan — 2009-02-06
• Capital of Japan before 22-Down — 2006-03-13
• Former Japanese capital — 2005-11-16
• 1997 treaty city — 2005-08-14
• Global warming treaty city — 2004-11-25
• Doshisha University locale — 2000-08-27
• Japan's capital until 1868 — 2000-08-03
• Former capital of Japan — 1999-12-07
• Where the Mikado once lived — 1997-01-10