Description: Tsukubai and bamboo ladle in the Japanese garden

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Description: Tsukubai, bamboo ladle and stone lantern in the Japanese Garden.

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Description: Hishaku

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Description: Flowing water in a bamboo tube

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Description: Water in a stone bowl

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Description: Tsukubai and bamboo tube

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Description: Sakura

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Description: Sakura blooms and japanese castle

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Description: Bamboo ladle

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Description: Sakura blooms and japanese castle

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Description: Nice sakura

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Description: Pink sakura

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Description: Pagoda and sakura

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Description: Takeda castle

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Description: Takeda castle, Takeda Castle„ÄÄwas built on this site in the path of aggression between Harima/Tanba and Tajima as a stronghold of Izushi Castle. It was built by Ohtagaki Mitsukage, a retainer of Yamana Sozen, lord of the area, in 1441. Ohtagaki, who had been a military commander of the Yamana clan for 5 generations became lord of the castle. The castle is also known as torafusujou, which means the shape of the castle looks like a tiger sick in bed. Takeda Castle fell in two major steps. First was Hideyoshis conquest of Tajima in 1577. Takeda Castle was conquered along with the Yamana. Hideyoshi placed it in the control of his younger brother, a retainer of Hidenaga.„ÄÄThe second step came with the fall of, Akamatsu Hirohide, the last lord of of the castle. Takeda Castle fought on the side of the Western Forces for Tokugawa at the battle of Sekigahara in the attack on Tottori Castle. Hirohide gave meritorious service in the battle, but was accused of setting the castle town on fire. Later that year he committed seppuku and the castle was abandoned. There are no buildings left on the site of Takeda Castle today, but it vividly conveys a sense of history even now. Whereever you look at the ruins you can grasp the strategic importance of this site. A quiet castle town and river, the open fields under your eyes, and several ridges of mountains surround the castle. Any samurai bold enough to attempt an invasion must certainly feel caught in the tigers eye.

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Description: Takeda castle in the clouds

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Description: Takeda castle

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Description: Himeji castle

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Description: Himeji castle

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Description: Himeji castle at night

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