淀城／アクセス・場所・地図将軍秀忠に命により松平定綱が築城幕末には鳥羽伏見の戦いで敗れた幕府軍の入城を拒否した淀城【お城特集日本の歴史】

Yodo Castle[Castle feature Japanese history]

[Castle name]
Yodo Castle
The end of the Hidetada Shogunate The castle of the Shogunate army who refused to enter the battlefield of Toba Fushimi

[Description]
Yodo is a castle in the Tokugawa period which was in Yodomoto Town, Fushimi ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture.
Yodo Castle of the Toyotomi Hideyoshi era is called “Yodoko castle”

In the 9th year of Gunma (1623), by the 2nd generation Ggeneral “Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada”, “Matsudaira Sadatsuna” entered Yodo castle at 35,000 Jewels, and dominated the Yodo clan. After that, Matsudaira Sadatsuna was transferred to Biken and “Nagai Naomasa” entered the 100,000 Jewels and tried to expand the castle and the castle town. Following Nagai’s transfer, the castle owners changed one after another, with Ishikawa, Toda and Matsudaira.

Inaba governed the land until the end of the Tokugawa period, after Masatomo Inaba became a castle owner with 100 thousand jewels in Kyoho (1823). At the end of the Tokugawa period, the “battle of Toba fushimi” broke out between Satsuma and Tokugawa Shogunate Army, The Tokugawa army was defeated and trying to reoccur in the castle of Inaba who is the feudal lord, but the Yodo refused to enter the castle, and conversely bombarded.

When entering the Meiji era, Yodo Castle was also destroyed in accordance with the Waste Castle Order, and the remains are Stonewall, water, Tensorantai ruins etc. In addition, development has proceeded as a park of the Yodo Castle and the restoration is done.