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Osaka Castle’s stone walls and a white turret beside the moat.

Osaka Castle

Osaka Castle combines Toyotomi origins, Tokugawa fortifications and a 1931 reconstructed keep that has served as a museum since its opening.

Painted warrior on horseback identified in a later Nagashino battle screen as Ishikawa Kazumasa

Ishikawa Kazumasa

Ishikawa Kazumasa was a senior Tokugawa retainer who entered Toyotomi service in 1585 and later advanced Matsumoto’s castle and town development.

Painted seated portrait of tea master Sen no Rikyū

Sen no Rikyū

Sen no Rikyū was a sixteenth-century tea master whose wabi-cha practice reshaped Japanese tea rooms, utensils, hospitality, and cultural memory.