5 EASY FACTS ABOUT OITA-FUDOUSAN DESCRIBED

The stronghold of Otomo Sorin, the initial samurai to subjugate much of Kyushu and who also turned a convert to Christianity under the impact from the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, was in Funai, now Oita City. His ruling, warrior course, which dominated Japan for hundreds of years until 1868, remaining castles through the entire prefecture. Now