Hideyoshi Builds Osaka Castle
1586
On the ruins of an Ikko-Ikki temple fortress, Toyotomi Hideyoshi completed Osaka Castle with enormous stone walls and a black-and-gold tower that dominated the surrounding plain. Tens of thousands of laborers had worked on it for three years. It was the largest castle in Japan and the seat of his new authority.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.