Fukuyama Castle
| Fukuyama Castle | ||
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 Fukuyama Castle, castle tower |
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| Creation time : | 1619 to 1622 | |
| Castle type : | Hirayamajiro (hill castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Partly reconstructed | |
| Place: | Fukuyama | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 29 '27.7 " N , 133 ° 21' 40" E | |
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The castle Fukuyama ( Japanese 福山城 , Fukuyama-jō ) is located in the city of Fukuyama , Hiroshima Prefecture . In the Edo period , larger Fudai daimyo resided there one after the other .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- Mizuno from 1619 with 100,000 koku .
- Matsudaira (Okudaira) from 1700 with 100,000 Koku.
- Abe from 1710 with 100,000 Koku.
The last daimyo was Abe Masatake ( 阿 部 正 桓 ; 1852–1914), after 1868 count.
The attachment
In connection with the deposition of Fukushima Masanori ( 福島 正 則 ; 1561-1624) in 1619, Asano Nagaakira ( 浅 野 長 晟 ; 1586-1632) received the Hiroshima Castle and Mizuno Katsunari ( 水 野 勝 成 ; 1564-1651) the Fukushima Castle with one Income of 100,000 koku . Katsunari had been able to defeat Gotō Matabē ( 後 藤 又 兵衛 ; 1565-1615) during the siege of Osaka and therefore enjoyed great reputation. Katsunari's father Tadashige ( 忠 重 ) was a brother-in-law of Tokugawa Ieyasu , so that there was a close relationship with this family.
Since it was Katsunari's task to control the Tozama daimyo operating in central Japan , he immediately began building the castle and built a mighty complex with a five-story main tower, seven three-story and sixteen two-story watchtowers and ten gates in the form of the yagaura-mon ( 櫓 門 ). The material came in part from Fushimi Castle and Kambe Castle ( 神 辺 城 , Kambe-jō ), which had fallen to the Tokugawa.
The Mizuno remained lords of the castle for five generations until 1698 with the death of the only two-year-old Katsumine ( 勝 岑 ) the line went out. Then from 1700 the Ōgyū-Matsudaira with 100,000 koku were castle lords for a short time, until 1710 Abe Masakuni ( 阿 部 正邦 ; 1658–1715), coming from Utsunomiya , followed, also with an income of 100,000 koku. The Abes remained lords of the castle until 1868.
The castle uses a 28 m high hill from which one can see the Seto Inland Sea . The hill was surrounded by an inner and an outer moat. When the railway line was built along the inland sea in the Meiji period , the southern part of the inner ditch in Fukuyama was used for the track system and the station for the city was built there.
During the Pacific War , the center of Fukuyama was badly damaged and the castle buildings were also lost. In 1966 the castle tower and other towers were reconstructed.
photos
Old view of the southeast side
Castle tower, south side
West side
East Side
Fushimi yagura
literature
- Masafumi Kato: Fukuyama-jo. In: Masayuki Miura (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006, ISBN 4-05-604379-5 .
- Saichiro Miyaji (Ed.): Bakumatsu shoshu saigo-no hanchu-tachi. Saikoku-hen. Jinbunsha, 1997, ISBN 4-7959-1905-4 .
