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Shirotoridate ruins

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Shirotoridate ruins (Shirotoridate iseki) was a late Heian period and Kamakura period settlement in what is now part of the city of Ōshū, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site.

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