was a flatland castle located in Echizen,

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. The site of the castle is now the

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, a shrine to

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*http://www.geocities.jp/hokuriku1970/ootaki.html Castles in Fukui Prefecture Former castles in Japan Archaeological sites in Japan {{japan-struct-stub