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Rising on its great stone base above a sea of cherry trees, Osaka Castle is the most famous landmark of the city and a monument bound up with some of the most dramatic episodes of Japanese history. The original castle was built in the late sixteenth century by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the warlord who unified Japan after a long age of civil war, and it was conceived as the grandest fortress in the land, the seat from which he intended his family to rule. After his death the castle became the focus of ...