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Fukuyama, Hiroshima
Fukuyama Castle
福山城
Walk around to the north side, and the white keep turns into a wall of black iron.
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Abe Masakuni
阿部正邦
A daimyo who moved from Utsunomiya to Fukuyama in 1710. From then until the Meiji era, the Abe family ruled the Fukuyama domain.
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Right after arriving, he had every village submit records of its rice yield, population and livestock, and issued a 35-article set of rules to steady the domain after the change of lords.
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