is a 16th-century castle, located in Ōita city,

Ōita Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Ōita Prefecture has a population of 1,136,245 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,340 km2 (2,448 sq mi). Ōita Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northwest, ...

, Japan. It was built by

Ōtomo Sōrin , also known as Fujiwara no Yoshishige (藤原義鎮) and Ōtomo Yoshishige (大友義鎮), was a Japanese feudal lord (''daimyō'') of the Ōtomo clan, one of the few to have converted to Roman Catholicism (Christianity). The eldest son of , he ...

in 1562, who owned much of the surrounding Kyūshū island. The castle was originally built with several turrets ('' yagura''), all of which were burnt down with the three story

donjon A keep (from the Middle English ''kype'') is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word ''keep'', but usually consider it to refer to large towers in ...

in 1743. The covered bridge that led to the castle over its

moat A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that is dug and surrounds a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence. In some places moats evolved into more extensive ...

, as well as several turrets, were rebuilt in the 20th century. Original remains include part of the wall and the moat.

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Castles in Ōita Prefecture Lowland castles Ogyū-Matsudaira clan {{castle-stub