OITA-FUDOUSAN - AN OVERVIEW

The stronghold of Otomo Sorin, the first samurai to subjugate Significantly of Kyushu and who also turned a convert to Christianity underneath the influence on the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, was in Funai, now Oita Town. His ruling, warrior class, which dominated Japan for centuries right until 1868, left castles all over the prefecture. Now,