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Ōtaki, Chiba
Ōtaki Castle
大多喜城
A Showa-era keep crowns the hill, yet the only building left from the Edo period is a single gate beside the entrance of the high school below.
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Honda Tadatomo
本多忠朝
Second son of Honda Tadakatsu. He became lord of Otaki Castle with 50,000 koku in 1601 and was killed in the Summer Campaign of the Siege of Osaka in 1615.
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While he was lord, in 1609, the Spaniard Don Rodrigo visited Otaki Castle and recorded its iron gates and its interiors decorated in gold and silver.
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