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  • JAVIER BLÁNQUEZ

Updated Saturday, July 25, 2020 - 08:07

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One of the most amusing details for visitors to Nijo Castle , in central Kyoto, is its musical floors. No matter how careful you are when stepping on the so-called "nightingale floor" : the woods creak at every step and make a pleasant buzz that runs the length of the hallway. Obviously, this sonorous wood was not designed to entertain, but to alert of any infiltration inside the fortress, since it led to the dependencies of the shogun and his relatives. That is to say, it was an anti-ninja floor , something very useful in the 18th century, and only the best-trained ninjas could get to some

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