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Shikiyama Castle

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Shikiyama Castle (Shikiyama-jō) was a Nanboku-chō period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today the Mureshikiyama neighborhood of the city of Hōfu in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1935.

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

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