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Kusunoki Masashige
楠木正成
?–1336
A warrior from Kawachi in the late Kamakura and early Nanboku-cho periods. He fought the Kamakura shogunate on the side of Emperor Go-Daigo and built Chihaya Castle in 1332.
KENPEICC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia CommonsA mountain castle in Chihayaakasaka, Osaka. It is said to have been built by Kusunoki Masashige.
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- Type
- Castle
- Setting
- Mountain castle (yamajiro)built on a mountain; expect a climbWikipedia (ja)
- Keep (tenshu)
- No keep recordedno keep is recordedWikipedia (ja)
- Built by
- Kusunoki MasashigeWikipedia (ja)
- Main lords
- Kusunoki Masashige, Kusunoki clanWikipedia (ja)
- Abandoned
- 1360Wikipedia (ja)
- Designation
- National Historic SiteWikidata
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