Isn't the moss on those stone tōrō just adorable?
The clover-like embossing which can be seen on the metal tōrō (and just about everywhere else) is the mon (紋, "crest") of the Tokugawa family, and is called the maruni-mitsubaoi (三葉葵, "circle around three hollyhock leaves")
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