Identical in pronunciation (though not kanji) to its better-known, modern cousin in Aichi's Nagoya city, Nagoya-jō was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the late 19th-century to serve as his base of operations for his invasions of Korea. During the period, the castle was at the center of some 160 battle positions arranged across the Higashi-Matsuura Peninsula and surrounds. The fortress itself was second in scale at the time only to that of Osaka-jō, but it proved to be much shorter lived: following the Battle of Sekigahara, it was dismantled, with parts of the castle allegedly being used to build a new castle in Karatsu. Shown here is a remnant of the old Hon-maru outer wall leading to the Tenshu-dai (site of the donjon), with the former Ni-no-maru down below it.