Japanese Castle Guide

[Castle Name] Kotsukuri Castle [Introduction of Kotsukuri Castle] Kotsukuri Castle is a flatland castle which located in Kotsukuri Town, Tsu City, Mie Province. Sadaharu 5 year (1366), a family of Ise Kokusi Mr. Kitabatake [Kotsukuri Aki...

[Castle Name] Tashiro Castle Introduction of Tashiro Castle Tashiro Castle was the residence of Mr. Kuki, a former Shima navy. It is now located in Iwakura town, Toba city, Mie province. It is said that in Tenmon Ten Year (1541), the 4th...

[Name] Akagi Castle [Description] Akagi Castle was a hill castle which was located in Akagi Kiwa-cho Kumano-shi, Mie. It was　build around 1589 by Takatora Todo, who was famous for designing castles. Hideyoshi Toyotomi sent Takatora Todo...

[Name] Tamaru Castle [Description] Tamaru Castle was a hill castle located today’s Tamaru Tamaki-cho Watarai, Mie. It was built during Nanbokucho era by Chikafusa and Akinobu Kitabatake who sided with the Nancho force. In 1342, Takauji A...

[Name] Nakiri Castle (Nakiri Fortress) [Description] Namikiri Castle was located on Nakiri Daio-cho Shima-shi, Mie. The scale of the castle was　so big that it might be also called as a fortress. Mr. Kawatsura from a wealthy local family...

[Name] Ueda Castle [Description] Ueda Castle was a Teikakushiki-style flatland castle in Ninomaru Ueda-shi, Nagano. Masayuki Sanada, the head of administrative of Sanada Casle in Chisagata Shinano, started building Ueda Casle in 1583, an...

[Name] Kiriyama Castle (Tage Castle) [Description] Kiriyama Castle (Tage Castle) was a mountain castle located in today’s Kamitage Misugi- cho Tsu-shi, Mie. There was a Tage Palace, which spreaded out acrossfor 1 kilometer next to the ca...

[Name] Daishoji Castle [Description] Daishoji Castle was a hill castle built up on a hill, located in Kaga-shi, Ishikawa. It was built by the Kano clan during Kamakura era. In Sengoku era, Daishoji Castle fell within a day as Soteki Asak...

[Name] Saijo Jinya (the Saijo clan) [Description] Saijo Jinya (the Saijo clan) was a residential headquarter located in Akeyakashi Saijo-shi, Ehime. In 1636, Naomori Hitotsuyanagi was supported 18,000 Goku from the Kobe clan in Ise, and ...

[Name] Tate Castle [Description] Tate Castle was built and owned by the Matsumae clan. Its location was at today’s Assabu-cho. In 1868, right before the war of Hokkaido, the Matsumae clan constructed this castle to relocate from Matsumae...

[Name] Echizen Katsuyama Castle [Description] Echizen Katsuyama Castle was a flatland castle which used to be located today’s Katsuyama-shi, Fukui. Katsuie Shibata was given the land of Echizen by Nobunaga Oda, and orderd to Katsuyasu Sh...

[Name] Yogaiyama Castle [Description] Yo-gaiyama Castle is a yamajiro, a castle built on mountain, located in Kofu, Yamanashi prefecture. It is built to protect Tsutsujigasaki Castle, now also known as the ruins of Takeda Palace. When Ma...