Since last month, the castle towers and towers designated as important cultural properties have been found to be damaged one after another in castles in the Chugoku-Shikoku region.
Under these circumstances, scratches were found in nine places such as the pillar of the gate, which is an important cultural property of the country, at Fukuyama Castle in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, and the city has decided to report the damage to the police.
According to Fukuyama City, on the 20th, staff members looked around Fukuyama Castle and confirmed that it was a pillar of "Sujigane Gomon", which is designated as a national important cultural property, and an important cultural property of the city. Scratches were found in a total of 9 places, including the sliding door of "Kaneyagura".
All of them were round and hard scratches, and some of them were close to 50 cm in length.
The city will submit a damage report to the police on the 21st.
In the Shikoku region of China, from last month to this month,
▽ Kochi Castle in Kochi City,
▽ Matsuyama
Castle in
Matsuyama City, and
▽ Okayama
Castle in
Okayama City are also
designated as important cultural properties of the country and city. Similar scratches were found in, etc., and the police are investigating.
Minoru Uchida, chief of the Cultural Properties Division of the Fukuyama City Cultural Promotion Division, said, "It is very disappointing that a scratch was found while the renovation work was being carried out toward the 400th anniversary of the construction of the castle next year. It may be related to a series of damages. I just hope that the damage will not continue in other areas. "