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名古屋城
The keep crowned with golden shachi can't be entered today. Using prewar measured drawings and photographs, the city is preparing to rebuild it in wood.
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Kato Kiyomasa
加藤清正
A daimyo of Higo (Kumamoto) renowned as a master of stone-wall building. At Nagoya Castle he was in charge of the most important part: the keep's stone base.
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He is said to have brought about 20,000 workers from Kumamoto and finished the keep's base in under three months. The tale that he hauled the castle's largest stone, the Kiyomasa Stone, is, according to the official site, a modern invention; that wall was built by Kuroda Nagamasa.
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From a walkway 6 meters above the ground, you look down on stone walls toppled by an earthquake and the repairs happening right now.
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built the castleRecord source: article
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Sources
- 1観覧ガイド 石垣・清正石(名古屋城公式ウェブサイト)Checked:
- 2加藤清正(補助資料・Wikipedia日本語版)Checked:
- 3熊本城の歴史(熊本城公式サイト)Checked: