Japan: The Castle, Kumamoto, c.1895.

Kumamoto is the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū, Japan. Kato Kiyomasa, a contemporary of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, was made daimyo of half of the (old) administrative region of Higo in 1588. After that, Kiyomasa built Kumamoto Castle. Due to its many innovative defensive designs, Kumamoto Castle was considered impregnable, and Kiyomasa enjoyed a reputation as one of the finest castle-builders in Japanese history. Today the donjon (central keep) is a concrete reconstruction built in the 1970s, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle.

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