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Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyoshi Toyotomi, unifier of the realm. Today it looks exactly as it does on the Eggenberg folding screen, after wars, fires, repairs and reconstructions in the course of its history
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Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyos...

Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyoshi Toyotomi, unifier of the realm. Today it looks exactly as it does on the Eggenberg folding screen, after wars, fires, repairs and reconstructions in the course of its history
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Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyos...

Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyoshi Toyotomi, unifier of the realm. Today it looks exactly as it does on the Eggenberg folding screen, after wars, fires, repairs and reconstructions in the course of its history
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Osaka castle, completed in 1600 after three years of construction under Hydeyos...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind".
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind". Interior of Villa Katsura.
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...

Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito in 1590. The villa is a triumph of simplicity and precision, a "mirror image of the esoteric Japanese mind". Interior of Villa Katsura.
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Kobori Enshu designed and built Villa Katsura and its gardens for prince Toshito...