The 17th-century buildings owe much of their splendor to the structures brought here from Hideyoshi's opulent Fushimi Castle on the south side of Kyoto (dismantled by a Tokugawa shogun in 1632).
The buildings that were made during the 17th century were spendid.
We have had an ice storm that they're calling the worst in one hundred years, three hundred thousand people lost power in our area.