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Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima
Aizuwakamatsu Castle
会津若松城
The only castle in Japan today where you can see a keep roofed in red tiles.
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Gamo Ujisato
蒲生氏郷
A daimyo and son-in-law of Oda Nobunaga who came to Aizu in 1590 after Toyotomi Hideyoshi reorganized the northeast. He rebuilt the castle with stone walls and moats, raised a keep, named it Tsurugajo, and renamed the town from Kurokawa to Wakamatsu.
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He was counted among the foremost disciples of the tea master Sen no Rikyu. After Hideyoshi ordered Rikyu's death, tradition says Ujisato sheltered Rikyu's son Shoan in Aizu and, together with Tokugawa Ieyasu, asked Hideyoshi to let the Sen family recover.
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rebuilt it as an early modern castle and named it TsurugajoRecord source: article
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Built into the stone base of the keep are the lids of ancient stone coffins from burial mounds.
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