List of tenshu-style buildings outside of Japan

This is a list of tenshu-style buildings outside of Japan. Most of these buildings were constructed by Japanese immigrants in 20th century, and not faithfully reproductions of traditional Japanese castle.

Castle Image Location First Built Description
Makiki Christian Church Honolulu, Hawaii, United States 1927 Christian Church built by Takie Okumura, a Christian minister from Japan.[1]
Communist Party of China Jilin Committee Changchun, Jilin, China 1934 Originally built as the headquarter of Kwantung Army during Manchukuo era.
Sakhalin Regional Museum Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia 1937 Museum, originally built as Karafuto Prefecture museum by Japanese.[2]
Mikage Castle Itá, Paraguay 2006 Built by issei chicken farmer Hiromichi Maehara.[3]

Notes
  1. Nakagawa, Fusa (2015). Takie Okumura : a life lived in service to Japanese in Hawaii. Reddington, Kenneth Paul (First ed.). Tokyo. ISBN 9784283013148. OCLC 956481890.
  2. "Sakhalin Regional Museum".
  3. (PDF) https://www.py.emb-japan.go.jp/files/100064779.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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