Supported keep (kotenshu) of Fushimi castle, Japan.

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The original Fushimi Castle was founded in 1594 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Just one year later it was destroyed in a great earthquake. Hideyoshi commanded another castle to be built near this location. He died a couple years after its completion. Tokugawa Ieyasu then moved into the castle which was destroyed in a battle before the battle of Sekigahara. He rebuilt the castle again only to have it dismantled as a part of his own one castle per country laws. Some of the yagura gained new life as the Fushimi Yagura at Fukuyama Castle and the Fushimi Yagura at Osaka Castle. Reconstructed in 1964.

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Size: 4272px × 2848px
Location: Kyoto, Japan
Photo credit: © Ivan Marchuk / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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