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Osaka Castle
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Key facts
- Type
- Azuchi-Momoyama castle
- Built by
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- In use
- 1583–1945
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Japanese castle
- Country
- Japan
- Founded by
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Owned by
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Material used
- concrete
- Location
- Osaka Castle Park
- Official website
- www.osakacastle.net
- Image
- Osaka Castle 02bs3200.jpg
- Significant event
- architectural reconstruction
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- topic's main category
- Category:Osaka Castle
- Commons category
- Osaka Castle
- inception
- 1583-00-00
- native label
- 大坂城
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1868-00-00
- structure replaces
- Ishiyama Hongan-ji
- maintained by
- Osaka jōdai
- commissioned by
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- hashtag
- 大阪城
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Encyclopedic overview
Main tower Outer moat of Osaka Castle Osaka Castle (大坂城 or 大阪城, Ōsaka-jō) is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle is one of Japan's most famous landmarks and played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
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