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[[Image:Fushimicastle.jpg|right|thumb|500px|Fushimi castle, as reconstructed in the 20th century.]]
*''Type: Flatland-Mountain''
*''Founder: [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]''
*''Year: [[1596]]''
*''Destroyed: [[1619]]''
*''Reconstructed: 1964'' ([[Tenshu|Mogi-tenshu]])
*''Location: Fushimi, [[Kyoto]]''
*''Other Names'': 桃山城 ''(Momoyama-jou)''
*''Japanese:''伏見城''(Fushimi-jou)''
*''Japanese:''伏見城''(Fushimi-jou)''
Fushimi castle is the name of two castles built by [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] in Fushimi, in southeastern Kyoto.
Hideyoshi began construction on the first Fushimi castle in [[1592]], to serve as his retirement palace, but expanded it in [[1594]] in order to formally receive envoys from [[Ming Dynasty]] China. For that purpose, it is said that he mobilized 250,000 men, and dismantled the nearby [[Yodo castle]], to use its stone in the construction of Fushimi castle's walls.
In [[1596]], he received a vice-envoy from Ming, but just before the chief envoy arrived, there was a great earthquake, and the castle was destroyed.
==References==
==References==
*[[Nihon no Meijo]]
*''[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E4%BC%8F%E8%A6%8B%E5%9F%8E Fushimi-jô].'' ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'' 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
*Inoue Munekazu. ''[[Nihon no Meijo]]'' 日本の名城. Yuzankaku Publishing, 1992.
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