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Osaka Castle. The largest, most intimidating castle of its time, Osaka-jo was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, one of the three great unifiers of Japan. Hideyoshi established it as his stronghold in his work to unify Japan.
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After Hideyoshi died, his chief retainer Ieyasu Tokugawa established the shogunate in Edo (now Tokyo). In the 1615 Summer War of Osaka, Tokugawa launched another attack on the castle, once and for all destroying the Toyotomi family’s legacy.
