Oka Castle
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Oka Castle was a Sengoku to Edo period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the city of Taketa, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2023.
Walls of Oka Castle
Approach to the castle ruins
Site of the Otemon main gate
Statue of Rentarō Taki
Bungo Province
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Bungo Province was a province of Japan in the area of eastern Kyūshū, corresponding to most of modern Ōita Prefecture, except what is now the cities of Nakatsu and Usa. Bungo bordered on Hyūga to the
Oka Castle
…located on the top of Tenjinyama, a long hill to the east of the urban center of Taketa, which is situated in a small basin in the southwestern part of Bungo Province. It is at a crossroads of various roads crisscrossing the island of Kyushu and because of its geographical position, occupies an important strategic…
Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Bungo" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting Minosaki in 1856
Sasamuta Jinja, one of the ichinomiya of the province
Bungo Kokubun-ji
Funai Castle