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Hirosaki Castle


Hirosaki Castle

Hirosaki Castle

In 1810, the daimyo lord finally got permission to reconstruct a watchtower—the government agreed as the Russian presence grew in the Tsugaru Strait—and had a new keep built instead, which could have been a capital offense were it not for the project being cleverly undertaken.