Fukui Castle

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is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1976). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of , after an earlier castle built by Shibata Katsuie, over whose ruins it is partly built. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military installation
date from: 1573

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