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Fukuchiyama, Kyoto
Fukuchiyama Castle
福知山城
The keep's stone base, surviving from Akechi Mitsuhide's time, has more than 500 gravestones and stone Buddhas built into it.
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Kutsuki Tanemasa
朽木稙昌
The daimyo who moved from Tsuchiura in Hitachi province to Fukuchiyama in 1669. The Kutsuki family then ruled Fukuchiyama for 13 generations, about 200 years.
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The register of villages and rice yields that the shogunate issued to him on arrival survives, and the characters "Fukuchiyama Castle" on the castle's souvenir seal were copied from it.
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first Kutsuki lordRecord source: article
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