Kôchi-jô is a castle complex with a five-storey main tower built after the battle of Sekigahara (1600) between 1601 and 1611 on Otakasa Hill in the centre of the town of Kôchi in the south of Shikoku, commissioned by Prince YAMAUCHI Kazutôyô, ruler of the then province of Tôsa. The main tower (tenshukaku), which fell victim to a fire in 1727, was rebuilt at end of the 18th century and has survived to the present day. Two rivers, the Kagami-gawa and the Enokuchi-gawa, form the outer moat of the castle.
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