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Mizuki Castle

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Mizuki Castle (Mizuki-jō ato) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) straddling the border of the cities of Ōnojō, Dazaifu, and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1921, and raised to a Special National Historic Site since 1953 with the area under protection expanded in 2013.

Adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.

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