https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleboroughTempleborough (historically Templebrough)[1] is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. The suburb falls within the Brinsworth and Catcliffe ward of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. The area takes its name from the remains of the Roman fort found there, which were mistakenly believed to be that of a Roman temple.A Roman fort was first built on the site in earth and wood in the 1st century AD (most likely between the years 43 to 68[2][3]) and was later rebuilt in stone.[4]In 1916, the site of the fort was acquired by Steel, Peech and Tozer's steelworks in order to expand their works to meet the demand for steel during the First World War. The plans for the steelworks required the site to be levelled, and 10–15 feet of soil were removed from the area of the fort, destroying all archaeological remains.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteriesThe dissolution of the monasteries, also known as the suppression of the monasteries, was a set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded all Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland, seized their wealth, disposed of their assets, destroyed buildings and relics, dispersed or destroyed libraries and provided for their former personnel and functions.https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/september-14-henry-viii-destroys-a-centuries-old-shrine/September 14 – Henry VIII destroys a centuries-old shrine Sep 14, 2022 #dissolution of the monasteriesOn this day in Tudor history, 14th September 1538, the Shrine of Our Lady of Caversham, a religious shrine which had stood since the early 12th century, was destroyed on the orders of King Henry VIII.The shrine was destroyed as part of the king’s dissolution of the monasteries.
>>18532842revolution https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/jan/04/features11.g26Much of the destruction still evident on medieval churches was not carried out by iconoclastic Puritan troopers, or as a result of parliamentarian captains stabling their horses among the pews, but by reckless soldiers of both sides, or frenzied Protestant reformers of the 18th century. The anti-Cromwell and pro-monarchist propagandists of the late 17th century did an astonishingly good job.https://www.face?book.com/groups/735074571650946/posts/1182942586864140/Jean Armstrong, Could you discuss Henry VIII's destruction of the shrine of Saint Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas Becket), to which pilgrims had long journeyed, as portrayed in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales?https://britishhistories.com/f/25-cromwell-and-the-ransacking-of-peterborough-cathedral-churchThe account of the ‘Rifling and Defacing the Cathedral Church of PETERBURGH in the Year 1643’, recorded by Simon Gunton (1609-76) is a detailed eye-witness description of events at the Cathedral that April, given by a Francis Standish. It was published in a volume titled ‘The History of the Church of Peterburgh’ which was compiled from Gunton’s records and manuscripts ten years after his death. Gunton’s Book (facsimile) Photo credit: TSGunton’s Book (facsimile) Photo credit: TSGunton was the son of William Gunton, registrar of the diocese, and it is from his own personal papers that much of what is known of what was destroyed by the troops comes. Gunton had unlimited access to the Cathedral archives, much of which were destroyed in the attack, and had also copied the inscriptions on monuments within the building, later smashed and defaced, as a young boy.Cultural
>>18532843https://x.com/IberianSpirit/status/1515432977223888903Iberian Spirit on X: "Besides, numerous buildings were lost and entire cities were razed to the ground. The British were also involved in all this. In Madrid, for example, the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Retiro was blown up by an English order. https://x.com/AlbertoMiguelF5/status/1724886925557870932Alberto Miguel Fernandez on X: "Charlemagne's actual crown was destroyed during the French Revolution. But Napoleon had the court jeweler and goldsmith Biennais make a new version which still exists and can also be seen in David's monumental "Le Sacre de Napoléon." https://x.com/HistoireOdyssee/status/1724686492595892330Histoire & Odyssée on X: "#LeSaviezVous En France, le 15 novembre 1793, un décret de la Convention déclare que tous les Français doivent manger le « même pain ». Tous les boulangers seront tenus, sous peine d'incarcération, de faire une seule sorte de pain. " https://x.com/IberianSpirit/status/1515432943707164678Iberian Spirit on X: "I don't normally post this kind of content, but for a long time I've wanted to make a thread about the destruction of Spain's artistic heritage by the French during the Spanish War of Independence. https://x.com/AdLucem7/status/1515480892998885378Ad Lucem on X: "The French troops also ransacked many sites in Portugal & countless relics of saints have been missing since that time period" / Xhttps://twitter.com/WorstEngineer/status/1426983126778093569Borzam on Twitter: "@PerthBotak @DavidLarter @BDHerzinger French culture was destroyed due to French revolution" / X
>>18532846The French revolution was like a massive violent cultural revolution, mass executions of aristocrats and clergy, trying to entirely destroy old culture, religion and symbols and create a new calendar and "scientific" religion, destroying old churches and monasteries.Napoleonic French soldiers also devastated the cultural heritage of Spain and Portugal by destroying monasteries, churches, saint's relics, jewels, altering the entire skyline of cities with the devastation they caused.See this thread on the sheer damage the French did to Spanish heritage.https://twitter.com/IberianSpirit/status/1515432962631909383https://twitter.com/AdLucem7/status/1515480892998885378Napoleon spread a new set of laws throughout Europe, destroyed the Holy Roman empire.King Henry VII significantly altered England's culture and heritage by destroying the monasteries as well.How come people act like western Europe didn't go through mass destruction of cultural heritage and pretend only communist countries were affected?
>>18532847Napoleon them did it to Spain and destroyed their artifacts and architecture.Napoleonic French soldiers also devastated the cultural heritage of Spain and Portugal by destroying monasteries, churches, saint's relics, jewels, altering the entire skyline of cities with the devastation they caused.See this thread on the sheer damage the French did to Spanish heritage.https://twitter.com/IberianSpirit/status/1515432962631909383https://twitter.com/AdLucem7/status/1515480892998885378British and French troops both then mass raped Spanish girls and women in the Iberian war.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/18414604/#q18415997
>>18532842https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromwellian_conquest_of_Irelandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Years%27_War_(Ireland)
>>18532842https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horns_of_GallehusThe replicas of the Golden Horns of Gallehus exhibited at the National Museum of DenmarkThis article contains runic characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of runes.The Golden Horns of Gallehus were two horns made of sheet gold, discovered in Gallehus, north of Møgeltønder in Southern Jutland, Denmark.[1] The horns dated to the early 5th century, i.e. the beginning of the Germanic Iron Age.The horns were found in 1639 and in 1734, respectively, at locations only some 15–20 metres apart.[1] They were composed of segments of double sheet gold. The two horns were found incomplete; the longer one found in 1639 had seven segments with ornaments, to which six plain segments and a plain rim were added, possibly by the 17th-century restorer. The shorter horn found in 1734 had six segments, a narrow one bearing a Proto-Norse Elder Futhark inscription at the rim and five ornamented with images. It is uncertain whether the horns were intended as drinking horns, or as blowing horns, although drinking horns have more pronounced history as luxury items made from precious metal.The original horns were stolen and melted down in 1802. Casts made of the horns in the late 18th century were also lost. Replicas of the horns must thus rely on 17th and 18th-century drawings exclusively and are accordingly fraught with uncertainty. Nevertheless, replicas of the original horns were produced, two of them exhibited at the National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, with copies at e.g. the Moesgaard Museum, near Aarhus, Denmark. These replicas also have a history of having been stolen and retrieved twice, in 1993 and in 2007.
>>18532842Based moments in western civilizationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Vase#Vandalism_and_reconstructionAt 3:45 p.m. on 7 February 1845, the vase was shattered by William Lloyd,[18][19] who, after drinking all the previous week, threw a nearby sculpture on top of the case, smashing both it and the vase. He was arrested and charged with the crime of willful damage. When his lawyer pointed out an error in the wording of the act which seemed to limit its application to the destruction of objects worth no more than five pounds, he was convicted instead of the destruction of the glass case in which the vase had sat. He was ordered to pay a fine of three pounds (approximately 350 pounds equivalent in 2017[20]) or spend two months in prison. He remained in prison until an anonymous benefactor paid the fine by mail.[18]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horns_of_Gallehus#Burglary_and_destructionOn May 4, 1802, the horns were stolen by a goldsmith and watchmaker named Niels Heidenreich from Foulum, who entered a storage area containing the horns using forged keys. Heidenreich took the horns home and melted them down to recycle the gold. The theft was discovered the next day[7] and a bounty of 1,000 rigsdaler was advertised in the papers.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri#Early_attemptsPossibly the first attempts to read the scrolls were done by the artist Camillo Paderni who was in charge of recovered items. Paderni used the method of slicing scrolls in half, copying readable text, by removing papyri layers. This transcription procedure was used for hundreds of scrolls, and in the process destroyed them.[14]
>>18533521In 1756, Abbot Piaggio, conserver of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, used a machine he also invented,[9] to unroll the first scroll, which took four years (millimeters per day).[15][11] The results were then swiftly copied (since the writing rapidly disappeared: see below), reviewed by Hellenist academics, and then corrected once more, if necessary, by the unrolling/copying team.[1]
>>18533522https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/5097116/#q5098465>>5097116Sweden now: melting archeological findings.Sweden then: ???Obviously they had , just destroyed it like fucking retards. Why do we have only papyrii from papyrii villa? Nature preserved it better then retarded humans who would dispose "useless" books>>5098465There was a Dane who one upped the Swedes.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Horns_of_Gallehus#Burglary_and_destruction
>>18532846https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_of_CharlemagneThe Crown of Charlemagne (French: Couronne de Charlemagne) was a name given to the ancient coronation crown of Kings of the Franks, and later Kings of France after 1237.It was probably created as a simple circlet of four curved rectangular jewelled plates for Charles the Bald, the grandson of Charlemagne, but later, four large jewelled fleur-de-lis were added to these four original plates, probably by Philip Augustus around 1180, and surmounted by a cap decorated with precious stones. At this time, a similar but open crown, that of the queen, also existed. One of them was melted down in 1590 by the Catholic League during the siege of Paris. The remaining crown was used up to the reign of King Louis XVI, who was crowned in 1775 in the Reims Cathedral.[1] The crown of Joan of Évreux was then used for the coronation of the queens.[2]Only one of the 11 personal crowns of the Ancien Régime remains, the Crown of Louis XV, manufactured for the coronation of Louis XV in 1722, and 5 crowns from the 19th century. The coronation crown, the Crown of Charlemagne, was destroyed in the French Revolution, like some of the regalia.[8] The three medieval coronation crowns which were preserved at Saint Denis were destroyed during the French Revolution. One of these is shown being worn by the king in the 15th-century painting “The Mass of St. Giles”. Some believe that this may represents the French coronation crown even if it looks like more likely the one of Saint Louis with an added cap.http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG4681&collectionPublisherSection=workhttps://web.archive.org/web/20090507161534/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/largeImage?workNumber=NG4681&collectionPublisherSection=work
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>>18532842Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies and used them as medicines.
>>18533521https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_shipsThe Nemi ships were two ships, of different sizes, built under the reign of the Roman emperor Caligula in the 1st century AD on Lake Nemi. Although the purpose of the ships is speculated upon, the larger ship was an elaborate floating palace, which contained quantities of marble, mosaic floors, heating and plumbing, and amenities such as baths. Both ships featured technology thought to have been developed historically later. It has been stated that the emperor was influenced by the lavish lifestyles of the Hellenistic rulers of Syracuse and Ptolemaic Egypt. Recovered from the lake bed in 1929, the ships were destroyed by fire in 1944 during World War II.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi#Caligula's_shipshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula%27s_Giant_Ship
>>18535094https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MummiaMummia, mumia, or originally mummy was any of several different preparations in the history of medicine, from "mineral pitch" to "powdered human mummies". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine, which was translated as pissasphaltus (from "pitch" and "asphalt") in ancient Greek medicine. In medieval European medicine, mūmiyā "bitumen" was transliterated into Latin as mumia meaning both "a bituminous medicine from Persia" and "mummy". Merchants in apothecaries dispensed expensive mummia bitumen, which was thought to be an effective cure-all for many ailments. It was also used as an aphrodisiac.[1]Beginning around the 12th century when supplies of imported natural bitumen ran short, mummia was misinterpreted as "mummy", and the word's meaning expanded to "a black resinous exudate scraped out from embalmed Egyptian mummies".[citation needed] This began a period of lucrative trade between Egypt and Europe, and suppliers substituted rare mummia exudate with entire mummies, either embalmed or desiccated. After Egypt banned the shipment of mummia in the 16th century, unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses.By the 18th century, doubts about mummia's medical value had grown and its use became rarer, though it was still occasionally sold into the early 20th century. Artists in the 17–19th centuries also used ground-up mummies to tint a popular oil paint called mummy brown.
>>18535105https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brownMummy brown, also known as Egyptian brown or Caput Mortuum,[1]:254[2] is a shade of brown with good transparency, sitting between burnt umber and raw umber in tint.[3] Its bituminous pigment was made from the flesh of mummies mixed with white pitch and myrrh.[4][5] Mummy brown was extremely popular from the mid-eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, predominantly with Western European artists. However, fresh supplies of mummies diminished, and artists were less satisfied with the pigment's permanency and finish.[2] By 1915, demand had significantly declined.[6] Suppliers ceased to offer it by the middle of the twentieth century.[7]:82Mummy brown was one of the favourite colours of the Pre-Raphaelites.[6] It was used by many artists, including Eugène Delacroix, William Beechey, Edward Burne-Jones, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and Martin Drolling.[2]
The power of heritage has been understood for millenia. When it belongs to an enemy, it represents a resource to deprive them of. When it belongs to you, it can be seen as a burden or threat during times of upheaval.
>>18532842Beeldenstorm (pronounced [ˈbeːldə(n)ˌstɔr(ə)m]) in Dutch and Bildersturm [ˈbJldɐˌʃtʊʁm] in German (roughly translatable from both languages as 'attack on the images or statues', literally a 'storm against statues') are terms used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century, known in English as the Great Iconoclasm or Iconoclastic Fury.[2] During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions by Calvinist Protestant crowds as part of the Protestant Reformation.[3][4] Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places.[5]Protestant polemical print celebrating the destruction, 1566The Dutch term usually specifically refers to the wave of disorderly attacks in the summer of 1566 that spread rapidly through the Low Countries from south to north. Similar outbreaks of iconoclasm took place in other parts of Europe, especially in Switzerland and the Holy Roman Empire in the period between 1522 and 1566, notably Zürich (in 1523), Copenhagen (1530), Münster (1534), Geneva (1535), and Augsburg (1537), and in Livonia between 1522-1524.[6]In England, there was both government-sponsored removal of images and also spontaneous attacks from 1535 onwards, and in Scotland from 1559.[6] In France, there were several outbreaks as part of the Wars of Religion from 1560 onwards.BackgroundIn France, unofficial episodes of large scale destruction of art in churches by Huguenot Calvinists had begun in 1560; unlike in the Low Countries, they were often physically resisted and repulsed by Catholic crowds, but were to continue throughout the French Wars of Religion.[7] In Anglican England much destruction had already taken place in an organized fashion under orders from the government,[8] while in Northern Europe, groups of Calvinists marched through churches and removed images, a move which "
>>18535539https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2021/03/01/iconoclasm-and-unintended-consequences/https://hilarywhite.substack.com/p/heresy-and-hammer-how-protestanthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mlpD3-LhQhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vm_nSWnkohttps://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/cromohs/article/view/11259/11019https://peabody.harvard.edu/video-destroying-images-current-iconoclasm-contexthttps://stfrncis.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Beeldenstorm.pdfhttps://christianscholars.com/a-christian-reflection-on-religious-and-secular-iconoclasm/
christianity is not European culture and it should be destroyed
>>18535541https://hilarywhite.substack.com/p/heresy-and-hammer-how-protestanthttps://blogs.missouristate.edu/mindseye/history-and-memory-making-peace-after-religious-conflict/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5vm_nSWnkohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_mlpD3-LhQhttps://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-29-autumn-2013/seeds-destructionhttps://www.face?book.com/groups/627176244155822/posts/3205078193032268/
>>18535547A pagan Roman fort like Templeborough and the Portland vase and Golden Horns of Gallehus are Christian?
>>18535551https://hilarywhite.substack.com/p/heresy-and-hammer-how-protestanthttps://www.diggingupthepast.net/p/iconoclasm-the-art-of-destruction
>>18532842isn't rotherham the place where pakis use anglo vaginas as bottle openers?
>>18535555The Gallehus horn thiefs are not known so you can't say it was Danes who did it
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Equating an invasion (and consequent cultural destruction) by a rival european power with the cultural revolution seems a little dishonest, chinkspammer.Also why are you changs so sensitive about the cultural revolution anyway? As you constantly claim wasn't it based and modernitypilled way to clear the miasmas of backwards traditions and superstitions from the chinese mind o algo
>>18535606Are you mentally retarded?Half of these are people destroying their own artifacts, French destroying French artifacts and heritage in the French revolution and British people destroying their own artifacts and relics in the Protestant reformation and destroying centuries old English shrines and burning monastic libraries, wiping out Anglo-Saxon literatureProtestant wars in Germany and France and Netherlands were also German and French and Dutch Protestants destroying their own heritage.None of those were foreign invaders just looting stuff.
>>18535606>As you constantly claim wasn't it based and modernitypilled way to clear the miasmas of backwards traditions and superstitionsThat's what westerners claim about themselves while simultaneously claiming all their traditions and heritage are preserved and all artifacts are safe in western museums.This is why communism was invented in the west and westerners boasted about spreading "modernism" and "progress" to the rest of the world.British propagandists constantly run propaganda claiming the British museum saves artifacts and British never vandalise or destroy their own heritage (lmao)Japanese also destroyed all their own buildings, artifacts and heritage in the Meiji restoration, violently demolishing Japanese castles and temples and shines Then Japanese built fake cheap concrete copies of those castles a century later in the 1960 for foreign tourists visiting the Tokyo OlympicsThey didn't even have blueprints of the original castles and begged for any old photos to "reconstruct" them with concrete.
>>18535606he's right, retard. the kind of stuff protestants did to english culture was khmer rouge year zero tier
>>18532843So many Catholics don't know Saint Simon Stock was English and his visions of Our Lady of Mount Carmel did not occur on Mount Carmel but somewhere south of London. The exact place is lost because of Thomas Cromwell tearing the shrine apart brick by brick.Fr John S. Hogan, ocdsMay 16Today, St Simon Stock (1165-1265), patron of our Discalced Carmelite province. An Englishman who lived originally as a hermit, he rose to become Prior General of the Order. He was instrumental in the Order’s movement from an eremitical way of life on Mt Carmel to mendicant
>>18533521>>18533522Ethel Ross Barker noted in her 1908 Buried Herculaneum:[5]Appearance of the rolls. — A large number of papyri, after being buried eighteen centuries, have been found in the Villa named after them. In appearance the rolls resembled lumps of charcoal; and many were thrown away as such. Some were much lighter in colour. Finally, a faint trace of letters was seen on one of the blackened masses, which was found to be a roll of papyrus, disintegrated by decay and damp, full of holes, cut, crushed, and crumpled. The papyri were found at a depth of about 120 feet (37 metres).
>>18533521The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, which dates between AD 1 and AD 25, though low BC dates have some scholarly support.[1] It is the best known piece of Roman cameo glass and has served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards. It was first recorded in Rome in 1600–1601, and since 1810 has been in the British Museum in London.
>>18535616And the other half is you equating foreign invasions with internal cultural destruction. Or should whatever devastation the mongols and qings wrought be laid at the feet of the chinese?>>18535619Post anything from a British museum stating that historical artifacts have never been vandalised or heritage buildings destroyed in the history of the UK, chinkspammer.>>18535621That's why I specifically noted the foreign invasions, fuckwit. Read the post next time before you jump in to gibber about the protters.
>>18535635The Yuan and Qing dynasties didn't mass destroy temples or old artifacts or architecture and they promoted the most conservative severe forms of neo-Confucianism, retard, actively promoting people living in patrilineal clans and maintaining clan temples.Protestant Taiping rebels attacked the Qing for promoting ConfucianismBy the way Spain and Portugal were bothe ruled by French origin Capetian kings when the Corsican Napoleon invaded them and started smashing everything.
>>18535635>>18535650Portugal followed French examples after a liberal revolution and dissolved their monasteries.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries_in_Portugalhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_WarsSpain began suppressing its monasteries even before Napoleon invaded.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_monasterieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_confiscation
>>18535635Karl Marx lived in Britain and used the British Library.Also the quagga, bluebuck, Southern Black rhinoceros were wiped out by Boers Afrikaners.The Rocky mountain locust and passenger pigeon were wiped out by white AmericansTasmanian tiger was wiped out by white Australians.Dodo bird was wiped out by white explorers.English people exterminated their own wolf population and Japan follows their example and exterminated the Japanese Honshu wolf and Hokkaido wolf as well as the Japanese river otter.White American fur traders also helped exterminate the Falkland Islands wolf.So wildlife isn't safe either.
>>18535724Southern Black rhinoceros was hunted to extinctions by the Boer Afrikaner in the 19th centuryJapan and North Yemen imported the most rhino horn in the 1950s to the 1980sSouth Korea imported the most rhino horn in the 1980s and 1990s.Vietnam now imports the most rhino horn since the 2000sSouth Koreans also destroyed their own heritage in the 1970s, burning down shaman shrines and force converting them to Protestant cults.Most South Korean genealogies are also recent forgeries and "invented tradition", Korean peasants who originally had no surnames added themselves to genealogies of noble clansThat's why so many Koreans are named Kim, Park and Lee today. They were originally peasants with no surnames but wrote up fake genealogies connecting themselves to old royal families with those surnames.
>>18535729Most Korean palaces and temples are recent 20th century concrete reconstructions, just like most Japanese castles and temples.Japanese were falsely claiming Muslim immigrants burned down an ancient medieval flame temple, which was in reality a modern reconstruction and not old at all.Japanese "traditional weirs" have concrete repairs on them.
>>18535733Koreans were crying about tourists taking selfies at a "traditional temple" in Jeju that was only a few decades old.Entire Seoul and Tokyo are modern glass steel and concrete constructions with fake pseudo concrete temples and palaces Beijing still has the original medieval Forbidden City unlike Tokyo or Seoul. Qufu still had the original Confucius mansion and temple and Ming dynasty robes in the mansion and ancient statues in the temple.The oldest standing medieval city walls, brick building and wood building in East Asia are all in China.Xi'an city walls and drum tower are the oldest standing medieval city walls in East Asia.Wild goose pagodas in Xi'an are the oldest standing medieval buildings in East Asia. They are brick.China also has the oldest standing wooden building in East Asia, Pagoda of Fogong Temple, Wooden Pagoda of Ying County (Chinese: 应县木塔, pinyin: yìngxiàn mùtǎ). Korean also circumcise for non-religious reasons like American whites.
>>18535541>>18535551https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/westernumirror/article/download/15960/12387/39200https://www.dhm.de/journal/en/post/iconoclasm-and-reformation
>>18535105https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Ferlinihttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nubian_pyramids#Notable_figures_and_their_discoveriesIn the 1830s Giuseppe Ferlini came to Meroe seeking treasure and raided and demolished a number of pyramids which had been found "in good conditions" by Frédéric Cailliaud just a few years earlier.[14] At Wad ban Naqa, he leveled the pyramid N6 of the kandake Amanishakheto starting from the top, and found dozens of gold and silver jewelry pieces. Overall, he is considered responsible for the destruction of over 40 pyramids.[14][15]
>>18535619Some events happening centuries earlier doesn't really say much about the attitudes towards cultural preservation in the modern UK. >and westerners boasted about spreading "modernism" and "progress" to the rest of the world.Because we did do that. Also China similarly boasts about its positive influence in Africa. You're problematizing this as though it's uniquely Western when it's a particular consequence of a (mostly) benevolent overlord placating a weaker, struggling country. >British propagandists constantly run propaganda claiming the British museum saves artifactsBecause Britain is a developed country with a mostly stable political environment. It's not likely to collapse into civil war the way many other countries are. >>18535724Nobody is acting otherwise. The extinction of the Dodo bird is known by practically everyone in the West, including children. There are even cartoons made about it. It's because of this environmental destruction that we're so serious about not allowing it to happen again.
>>18535769AYO HOL UP
>>18532842https://www.theguardian.com/science/2005/oct/07/archaeology.heritageBritain's ancient sites destroyed by agricultureThis article is more than 20 years oldMaev Kennedy, archaeology correspondentSome of the oldest highways in Britain, built over 5,000 years ago to guide Bronze Age man across the treacherous wetlands of the Somerset Levels, have been completely destroyed by modern agriculture.The scientists, who carried out the first systematic survey to assess the scale of the damage, described their findings as "quite shocking, but not unexpected."They opened small trenches to check sites which, excavated over the last century, once held startlingly well preserved organic remains illuminating how prehistoric man lived, hunted and fished in a landscape more water than solid ground - making them some of the most important wetland sites in the world.This time the scientists found that as the land has been drained, particularly with the use of more powerful pumps since the second world war, almost all the sites have been seriously damaged, and many destroyed. Two track ways, both scheduled ancient monuments, have disintegrated completely, leaving only smears of dust in the soil and the odd scrap of pottery and flint. Another two have probably been destroyed, since the scientists failed to locate them - even though they were in pasture land, generally regarded as far less damaging to archaeology than tillage.They found the Iron Age lake village at Meare, an internationally famous site, so damaged "that the only remaining organic components were shrivelled and contorted wood fragments". Waterlogged peat is 90% water, and originally preserved the stakes, wicker frames and plank surfaces of a network of tracks across the bogs, and of fish traps and village sites. Many are now permanently above the water level, even in wet winters: as the soil dries out, the ancient wood simply disintegrates.
>>18533517https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund_Man#Preservation_and_displayThe Tollund Man offered researchers a rare opportunity. While much of the body had already begun to deteriorate by the time it was found, the head was still in exceptionally good condition. Its features were clear enough to allow a detailed study, and conservators decided to focus their efforts on saving this part of the remains and the rest of the body remain unpreserved.[22]They developed a new preservation method step by step. First, the head was placed into a series of carefully prepared liquid baths. These baths gradually replaced the natural water in the tissues with stabilising solutions. Afterward, the head was lowered into warm beeswax. As the wax cooled, it soaked into the cells and strengthened them from within. When the conservators lifted the head from the wax and wiped it clean, the features were still intact. The experiment had worked.[22]Subsequently, the body was desiccated and the tissue disappeared. In 1987, the Silkeborg Museum reconstructed the body using the skeletal remains as a base. As displayed today, the original head is attached to a replica of the body.[23]
>>18536150https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashel_ManCashel Man is the preserved remains of a young adult male discovered in 2011 in Cashel Bog, near Cashel in County Laois, Ireland.[1] Radiocarbon dating places his death between 2141 and 1960 BCE, during the Early Bronze Age.[2] The exceptionally early date makes Cashel Man one of the oldest bog bodies known from Europe and the earliest discovered in Ireland with preserved soft tissue.[3]Osteological analysis identified the individual as a male aged approximately 20 to 25 years at the time of death.[3] Fragments of the head preserved closely cut hair, indicating that his hair was short when he died. The body was discovered during peat milling and was partially damaged by harvesting machinery before archaeologists from the National Museum of Ireland recovered the remains and documented the find site.[1]DiscoveryCashel Man was uncovered on 10 August 2011 during peat milling in Cashel Bog between Portlaoise and Abbeyleix.[1]Bord na Móna worker Jason Phelan was guiding a milling machine across the bog when he spotted a sharp, triangular object rising from the peat. When he tried to move it aside, two human legs lifted with it. He stopped the machine immediately.[1]Staff from the National Museum of Ireland arrived soon after, along with pathologist Marie Cassidy. They confirmed that the chest area had been sliced by the machinery and that centuries of peat pressure had flattened and distorted the remains.[1]The man was lying on his right side in a tight crouch. Later CT scans showed his legs pulled close to his chest and his hands wrapped around them. The milling machine had removed the head, neck, and left arm, but fragments of all three were recovered from the milled peat, including jawbone, teeth, ribs, parts of the spine, skin, and hair.[3]
>>18536156>>18536165https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagh_ManDiscoveryGallagh Man was discovered in 1821 by labourers working for the O'Kelly family while digging peat from a bog in Gallagh, a townland outside Castleblakeney, County Galway.[6] The O'Kellys were a well-known and powerful family in the region, whose ancestors had built a castle at Gallagh during the medieval period.[7] The body became a local curiosity which the O'Kelly family occasionally dug up to show to paying visitors before burying it again.[6][8] The corpse remained in situ until excavated fully and bought by the Royal Irish Academy in 1829, and later transferred to the National Museum of Ireland.[9]However, as the O'Kelly family had dug and reburied the remains a number of times, parts of the find, especially the clothing, were damaged. In addition, its exact find location was not recorded,[10] but the likely area is adjacent to a contemporary townland, parish, and barony boundary, which was the medieval boundary of the Uí Maine kingdom ruled by the O'Kelly (Ó Ceallaigh) family.[7]
>>18536167https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Croghan_Man#PreservationPreservationLike many northern European bog bodies, Old Croghan Man was preserved by the cold, wet and acidic conditions in the peat. The bog was low in oxygen and rich in sphagnum moss, which creates an environment that slows or stops the bacteria that normally break down soft tissue. This allowed the skin, soft tissues and some internal organs to survive in good condition.[18][13]The preserved torso includes large areas of skin, the upper arms and shoulders, and internal organs such as the lungs and stomach, which have been examined for signs of illness and for the remains of his last meals.[7][13] The missing head and lower body, and tearing and compression around the surviving edges, point to both the original cutting up of the body and later damage caused by drainage and peat-cutting at the site.[16]
>>18536167https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonycavan_ManClonycavan ManDied 392–201 BCPresent-day Ballivor, County Meath, IrelandBody discovered March 2003Resting place National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, DublinKnown for Iron Age bog bodyHeight 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)Clonycavan Man is a well-preserved Iron Age bog body found in Clonycavan, Ballivor, County Meath, Ireland in March 2003. The body shows signs of having been murdered. Theories around the meanings and manner of his death vary but include ritual sacrifice or murder, although no definite motives have been established.Clonycavan Man is on permanent display at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin, and was included in the exhibition "Kingship and Sacrifice" between 2006–2007.Condition and characteristicsOnly Clonycavan Man's head and torso are preserved. He was found in a modern peat harvesting machine, which was possibly responsible for the severing of his lower body.[1]
>>18536156https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoneyisland_Manhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bog_bodieshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elling_WomanThe Elling Woman is preserved as a dark, leathery body typical of individuals recovered from peat bogs, where low oxygen, cool temperatures, and the acidic water produced by sphagnum slow decay and tan the skin in a manner similar to leather. When she was removed in a block in 1938, her soft tissues were still flexible and her limbs retained much of their shape. Her long hair, measuring approximately 90 cm (35 in), survived in exceptional condition and continued to hold the form of the elaborate braid she wore at the time of death.[4]A reconstruction of her hairstyle and capeHer face was already poorly preserved when discovered, and none of her internal organs had survived. Bog environments dissolve soft tissues and the mineral content of bone while stabilizing collagen in skin and hair, creating the selective pattern of preservation seen in many bog bodies.[4] This chemical process explains why the outer surfaces of her body and her clothing survived while most internal structures did not. Her condition changed significantly after excavation. Long term conservation methods for peat-preserved human remains were not yet established in the 1930s, and the body gradually dried once removed from the bog. By the time of detailed examinations at the Silkeborg Museum in the 1970s, the skin had tightened and hardened, producing deeper folds along the limbs and torso. Although the body had become more rigid, the overall outline and many surface details remained intact enough for forensic study.[5]
>>18536150https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_in_20th-century_BritainThe destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses of varying architectural merit were demolished by their owners. Collectively termed by several authors "the lost houses", the destruction of these now often-forgotten houses has been described as a cultural tragedy.[2][3]The British nobility had been demolishing some of their country houses since the 15th century, when comfort replaced fortification as an essential need. For many, demolishing and rebuilding their country homes became a lifelong hobby, in particular during the 18th century when it became fashionable to take the Grand Tour and return home with art treasures, supposedly brought from classical civilizations. During the 19th century, many houses were enlarged to accommodate the increasing numbers of servants needed to create the famed country house lifestyle. Less than a century later, this often meant they were of an unmanageable size.In the early 20th century, the demolition accelerated, while rebuilding largely ceased. The demolitions were not confined to England, but spread throughout Britain. By the end of the century, even some of the "new" country houses by the architect Edwin Lutyens had been demolished. There were a number of reasons: social, political and, most importantly, financial. In rural areas, the destruction of the country houses and their estates was tantamount to a social revolution. Well into the 20th century, it was common for the local squire to provide large-scale employment, housing, and patronage to the village school, parish church, and a cottage hospital. The "big house" was the bedrock of rural society.[4]
>>18532842https://kids.kiddle.co/TempleboroughIn 1916, a steel company called Steel, Peech and Tozer bought the land where the fort was. They wanted to make their factory bigger for World War I. To do this, they had to flatten the area, which meant removing a lot of soil. This destroyed many of the old Roman remains.
>>18536197>Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, was a legionary fortress and town in the Roman province of Britannia on the site of the modern city of Chester.[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_Victrix#Later_history_and_investigationLater history and investigationIn the 14th century, Ranulf Higden, a monk in Chester, described some of the Roman remains, including the sewers and tombstones.[42] Antiquarians began to take interest in the remains in the 17th century and interest continued to grow in the 18th century, fed by accounts of Roman Chester and discoveries such as an altar to Jupiter Tanarus.[43] Jupiter Tanarus—also Taranis—was the Romanised version of the god Taranis who was the equivalent of Jupiter the god of thunder.[44] In 1725, William Stukeley recorded the Roman arches of the east gate; they were demolished in 1768.[43] Over the next century, accidental discoveries continued, such as parts of the Roman bath complex outside the fortress which were destroyed by a late-18th-century housing development.[43]The Chester Archaeological Society, founded in 1849, acquired artefacts discovered in Chester and undertook excavations where possible;[45] the Grosvenor Museum was opened in 1886 to allow the public to view the society's collection.[46] The society continued to work in Chester, recording information on the fortress and its surrounding settlement, often as building works destroyed the sites.[47] Between 1962 and 1999, about 50 excavations were carried out in and around the fortress, revealing new information about Deva Victrix.[48] Between 2007 and 2009, excavations were carried out at the amphitheatre on behalf of Chester City Council and in association with English Heritage.[49]
>>18532842The answer is the Reformation and the Enlightenment. The Catholic Church built the culture that was destroyed. Protestantism and secularism destroyed it.The Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII (1536-1541) was the single greatest cultural destruction in English history. 800 monasteries dissolved, their libraries burned, their art smashed, their lands seized by the crown. These weren't "pagan superstitions." They were libraries, hospitals, schools, orphanages. Thomas Cromwell's commissioners melted down shrine gold and smashed stained glass. The Protestant Reformation that gets romanticized on this board was a state-sponsored looting operation.The French Revolution was the second wave. It didn't just execute aristocrats; it executed clergy, confiscated Church property, desecrated cathedrals, replaced the Mass with the Cult of Reason, and invented a new calendar to erase Christian time itself. The Revolution explicitly rejected God. The American Revolution didn't, which is why the Church never condemned it. Different categories.What was destroyed was 1500 years of Christian civilization. The monasteries preserved the classical inheritance through the so-called dark ages. The universities were Church foundations. The hospitals were Church foundations. The art, architecture, music, philosophy: all Church. When the reformers said "sola scriptura," they declared that the institution which built European civilization was illegitimate, and then they dismantled it piece by piece.The bog bodies and lost Roman forts in this thread are sad, but they're not the main story. The main story is that western Europeans didn't lose their culture. They deliberately destroyed it, and they did it in the name of "reform" and "progress."
>>18536589sorry father o'flaherty, no more boyfucking today
>>18535619>>18535733>>18535741Japan annihilated and destroyed its own culture in the Meiji restorationhttps://desuarchive.org/his/thread/16634206/#q16634206>>16634206Tens of thousands of Japanese temples, shrines and castles were destroyed and decades later rebuilt with steel and concrete for dumb western tourists like you.Japan destroyed its traditional social structure violently in the blood tax riots.Japan even destroyed its traditional burial customs and food taboos, switching to eating dairy in the Meiji restoration while stop eating dogs and cats, and forcing its people to cremate.French culture was destroyed in the French revolution.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/15158610/#q15159608>>15159608Japanese violently destroyed their own culture in the Meiji restoration, destroying tens of thousands of temples, shrines and castles and destroying their own culture to westerniseFrance violently destroyed its own culture in the French revolution and then Napoleon destroyed Spain and Portugal's heritage.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13277598/#q1327776690% of South Korean men circumcise. (Agaisnt Confucianism)90% of South Koreans cremated the dead. (Agaisnt Confucianism)Most traditional Korean palaces have been destroyed like Gyeongbokgung and what stands today is a 20th century replica.Most Korean clan genealogies are 20th century forgeries (over half of Koreans who descend from the peasant class now claim ancestry from royalty) by totally unrelated people who joined together and fabricated a common genealogy.Korean "traditional food" includes spam soup (Budae-jjigae) from US army rations.Korean "traditional" martial arts like taekwondo, kumdo were invented and copied from other counties in the 20th century.Korean traditional Hanbok exposes breasts but they are too ashamed to wear it now.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13869957/#q13869957
>>18537130>How the #Japanese government destroyed 80,000 Shinto shrines in the Meiji era. https://tfg.li/stateshintohttps://www.tofugu.com/japan/state-shinto/>That wasn't the end of it. Shrines with long histories were transformed from celebrating local heroes, legends, or natural spirits to celebrating whatever had propaganda value to the state. So the shrine that paid respect to a powerful tree for a hundred years would suddenly be paying respect to a war hero with no connection to the original shrine.>Finally, in 1906, the Imperial government announced it would only provide funds for one shrine per village3. That one shrine usually reflected state interests.>You might think Shinto would have experienced a revered or elevated status during this time, but instead, it was blighted and under siege. During the Meiji era's most aggressive wartime expansion, 80,000 local shrines disappeared4, consolidated into those that followed state guidelines. (For some perspective, that's the total number of Shinto Shrines in Japan today.)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_Consolidation_Policy
>>18537131https://twitter.com/namatsuu/status/1671517735979720706>As I'm graduating I thought I'd share some thoughts on my thesis topic. It was about #Japanese #castles as parts of #CulturalHeritage, focusing on recent castle reconstructions. Here is a visual recap of my thesis, which included survey and interview data from around #Japan. 1/
>>18537131>>18537133https://twitter.com/namatsuu/status/1671519848289935361>Sadly, most of these castles were lost during the Meiji Restoration in the late 1800's. For 300 years castles had dominated the townscape, but they were seen as obsolete feudal relics in contrast to modern, Western architecture, and dozens were ruthlessly demolished. 6/
>>18537133>>18537134https://twitter.com/namatsuu/status/1671520541356834819>After the war there was a so-called castle boom, during which 50+ castles were reconstructed. But due building regulations and values of the time, these were hastily built out of concrete, making them blatantly ahistorical. Most of the existing tenshu are made of concrete. 8/
>>18537133>>18537134>>18537136White nationalist Jared Taylor's book "Shadows of the Rising Sun", published in 1983 on how Japanese piss in the streets in public.Japan only stamped this out recently.
>>18537138https://twitter.com/namatsuu/status/1671520541356834819After the war there was a so-called castle boom, during which 50+ castles were reconstructed. But due building regulations and values of the time, these were hastily built out of concrete, making them blatantly ahistorical. Most of the existing tenshu are made of concrete. 8/https://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1631253085283663872THIS. So Japanese companies builds a castle and it's "fake", but the "classic ones" that are really just reconstructions? In all my tours they were presented as the original ones. This would be such a blasphemy in Europe lolhttps://twitter.com/FPresencia/status/1631582335568052225Kinkaku (golden wall temple) for example, it was only the 3rd time or so I went there that the guide told us it was a reconstruction. The Osaka castle main tower, the famous one, is from the 30s apparently (as in, 1930s). And Nagoya castle is new from WWII.https://twitter.com/UnseenJapanSite/status/1631202910762835968>A fake castle in Akabira, Hokkaido. During the excesses of the bubble era, multiple entities with excess cash on their hands built such castles. This one was a showroom and production facility for a doll company.https://twitter.com/CJV_en/status/1539126159421878273An awesome shot of what appears to be Sensoji Temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, through the green summer leaves!The pagoda was first erected in 942 and since then it has been destroyed and rebuilt several timesThe current pagoda was rebuilt in 1973#Japan #Photographyhttps://twitter.com/ClintonGodart/status/1721014672726667271Did you know the famous Kaminarimon at Sensōji has a plate honoring Panasonic? The gate burned down in 1865, only rebuilt in 1960. It was supported by Panasonic's founder, Matsushita. He was friends with Shimizutani Kyōjun, Sensōji's priest, who prayed to Kannon for his health1/2
>>18537140https://twitter.com/Gilded_app/status/1434699380313972738Did you know that the Kinkakuji or the “Golden Pavilion” located in Kyota, Japan has a rooftop that is made out of #realgold and was rebuilt in 1955 after it had been burned down?: IBolat_caesarTokyo is all modern glass, steel, concrete with not a single real historical sitehttps://twitter.com/AhmedSh63073776/status/1655531196250464258Japan destroyed its own culture in the Meiji restoration. Tons of Japanese castles and temples were destroyed and replaced by concrete copies for western tourists.Japan also destroyed their own traditional burial and eating habits and adopted cremation and eating dairy from westerners.>>15159408desuarchive.org/his/thread/15158610/#q15159408Japanese also regularly pissed in public until recently.
>>18537140>>18537142https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/15158610/#q15159408>>15158610>>15158651>>15159355>>15159364>15159368>15159400The Japanese smashed and destroyed tens of thousands of artifacts, temples and statues in the Meiji restoration in addition to razing the original castles.https://desuarchive.org/his/thread/13175727/#q13185132https://alljapantours.com/japan/travel/where-to-go/best-places-to-see-in-kyoto-japan/>Also in Arashiyama, Togetsukyo Bridge stretches 155 meters (508 feet) across the Katsura River. The first incarnation of it dates back to 836, but the current construction was built in 1934 to accommodate cars.>The modern bridge retains the traditional Japanese aesthetic. Although the bridge looks wooden, the structure is actually mostly made from concrete. The Togetsukyo Bridge is considered to be a masterpiece of natural scenic beauty. From here, you can see magnificent views of the western Kyoto hills.The Japanese did this to tens of thousands of traditional temples and stone statues in shinbutsubunri in the meiji restorationthe beheaded and smashed statues are still visible todayhttps://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dLQcJ6ABLl8J:https://jref.com/articles/shinbutsu-bunri-the-separation-of-shinto-and-buddhism.468/>In some areas, official antagonism escalated into a full-blown outbreak of violence against temples, statues, and priests. According to some estimates, nationwide, up to 40,000 temples were destroyed. In some provinces, 80 per cent of all temples were demolished. In Chōshū, modern-day Yamaguchi Prefecture, Buddhist temples had practically ceased to exist. The Haibutsu kishaku movement declined around 1871 and resulted in a reform movement within Japanese Buddhism.Japanese simplified characters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinjitai
>>18537142>>18537143https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1665651409222766592>Japanese medical doctor moves to help Afghanistan, changes mission when faced with state of local agriculture. Brings with him a medieval Japanese manual for land restoration. Gets murdered for his troubles. Same spot: January 2017 and April 2023. Tetsu Nakamura, 1946-2019.https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1665654242391252997>Inspired by the Yamada Weir and the irrigation technology of Fukuoka province in the middle ages. I believe there is a modern manual now in English, Pashtun and Japanese called the PMS Manual. https://maff.go.jp/j/nousin/sekkei/museum/m_siki/64_yamada/The weir isn't medieval. Its literally from 1790. There isn't any medieval manual but only modern studies of it which is why he couldn't link one when asked but only mentions a modern manual.Lastly, the weir was rebuilt with a fake imitation cobblestone concrete structure.All of this was from the website he linked.https://www.maff.go.jp/j/nousin/sekkei/museum/m_siki/64_yamada/>朝倉市には、国指定史跡となっている農業用施設が数多く現存しています。これら施設は、現在も農業に多大な役割を果すとともに、先人の築いた歴史や文化を今に伝え、水と緑に囲まれた自然を保持し、後世に残すためのシンボルとしての役割も果しています。山田堰は、1790年、現在の井堰の基本が出来て以来、数度の改修工事を経て今日に至っており、最近では農業用河川工作物応急対策事業により平成10~11年に改修が行われ、その際にも石畳を思わせる石張りコンクリート構造で改修が行われています。
chinkspammer can you take the bugman vs bugman seething to 2chan or one of those actual jap forums, you can google translate stuff now surely they'll get the gist of it
>>18537145>In Asakura City, there are many existing agricultural facilities that are nationally designated historic sites. These facilities continue to play a significant role in agriculture today, and also serve as symbols for preserving the history and culture of our predecessors, preserving nature surrounded by water and greenery, and preserving them for future generations. is fruiting. Since 1790, when the basics of current wells were established, the Yamada Weir has been repaired several times to the present day. At that time, it was renovated with a stone-clad concrete structure reminiscent of a cobblestone pavement.
>>18537177https://twitter.com/japan/status/1644580894236352512>Live the dream of staying in a castle ! Ehime's Ozu Castle offers a once-in-a-lifetime stay for 1 group of guests daily. Enjoy a reenactment of the 1617 castle takeover, court music , & local cuisine w/ a modern twist .https://castlestay.ozucastle.com/en/home#RegionalRevitalizationhttps://www.ozucastle.com/en/>Immerse yourself in the charms of this ancient castle town, a city that retains the sights and tastes of yesteryears while being surrounded by lush nature. We are committed to bring added value to the local community by contributing to the renovation of notable residences, carefully selected. Experience a unique hotel with sleeping units scattered across a 400 years old urban fabric.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Czu_Castle>Ōzu Castle (大洲城, Ōzu-jō), also known as Jizōgatake Castle (地蔵ヶ嶽城, Jizō-ga-take-jō), is a castle located in Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Early defensive structures date back to early 14th century by Utsunomiya Toyofusa. In 1888 deterioration of the castle keep (天守, tenshu) led to its demolition, but it was accurately re-constructed in 2004.https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/2882/>9. Shibata Castle (Shibata City, Niigata, )>In 1872, when the Meiji Government ordered the castle to be dismantled, it had 11 yagura and five gates. Of those 16 main structures, only one gate and one yagura remain today. The majority of the ninomaru (the outer citadel) and the honmaru baileys are now occupied by the a Self Defense Forces base. Because of that, you cannot enter the three-story yagura pictured above. The closest that you can get is where this picture was taken, just across the moat.>The castle was reconstructed in 2004. Take the time to visit the samurai homes about 1.5 kilometers (1 miles) from the castle. They're well worth your time.
