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Fukuoka
Fukuoka Castle
福岡城
The massive keep base still stands, yet whether a keep was ever built on top of it is still an open question.
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Kuroda Kanbei (Yoshitaka, Josui)
黒田官兵衛(孝高・如水)
A warrior born in Himeji, Harima Province, famed as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's strategist. His formal name was Yoshitaka, and after taking the tonsure he called himself Josui. After Sekigahara he moved to Chikuzen with his son Nagamasa and took part in building Fukuoka Castle.
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He is ranked with Todo Takatora and Kato Kiyomasa as a master castle builder and advised on the layouts of Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya (Hizen) castles. Tradition says that while held for over a year in a dungeon after trying to persuade the rebel Araki Murashige, he was encouraged by wisteria flowers he could see from his cell, and later took the wisteria as his family crest.
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helped his son build the castleRecord source: article
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