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Endo Tsunetomo

遠藤常友

Grandson of Endo Yoshitaka and lord of the Gujo domain. In 1667 he carried out a major rebuilding of the castle and town.

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He rebuilt the town, burned in a great fire in the 1650s, around a network of water channels to make it fire-resistant. This "town of water" is seen as the foundation of today's Gujo Hachiman.

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The keep framed by autumn leaves, November 2017. It is a wooden mock keep built in 1933, not a copy of an Edo-period keep.

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Gujō, Gifu

Gujō Hachiman Castle

郡上八幡城

A wooden keep built in 1933, modeled on Ogaki Castle before the war destroyed it, still stands on the mountaintop.

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rebuilt the castle and townRecord source: article