Kameyama Castle (Ise)
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 Kameyama Castle |
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| Creation time : | 1590 | |
| Castle type : | Hirayamajiro (hill castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Mainly walls | |
| Place: | Kameyama | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 51 '22.1 " N , 136 ° 27' 2.1" E | |
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The Kameyama Castle ( Japanese 亀 山城 , Kameyama-jō ) is located in the city of Kameyama , formerly Ise Province , now Mie Prefecture . In the Edo period , nine small and medium-sized daimyo resided there one after the other , most recently the Ishikawa with an income of 60,000 koku .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- From 1601 the Seki with 30,000 Koku,
- from 1610 a branch of the Matsudaira (Ogyū) with 50,000 koku,
- from 1619 the Miyake with 10,000 koku,
- from 1636 a branch of the Honda with 50,000 Koku,
- from 1651 a branch of the Ishikawa with 50,000 koku,
- from 1660 the Itakura with 50,000 Koku,
- from 1710 a branch of the Matsudaira (Ogyū) with 60,000 Koku,
- from 1717 the Itakura again with 50,000 koku
- from 1744 the Ishikawa again with 60,000 koku.
history
The history of Kameyama Castle - similar to that of Tsu Castle - goes back to the Kamakura period . In 1264, Seki Sanetada ( 関 実 忠 ) built Wakayama Castle ( 若 山城 ), to the west not far from today's Kameyama Castle. This was now the residence of the Seki until 1590 Seki Kazumasa ( 関 一 政 ; 1564-1620), Kamō Ujisato ( 蒲 生 氏 郷 ; 1556-1595) followed to northern Japan. Then built his vassal Okamoto Munenori ( 岡本 宗憲 ; 1544-1600) southwest of it on a hill on the northern edge of the Suzuka River ( 鈴鹿 川 ) the current Kameyama Castle. The central castle area, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ) and the other areas Ni-no-maru ( 二 ノ 丸 ) and in the east the San-no-maru ( 三 ノ 丸 ) and the southern San-no-maru ( 南 三 ノ 丸 ) were laid out on the ridge .
In 1632 the shogunate gave orders to repair Kameyama Castle in Tamba Province. The commissioner, Horio Tadaharu ( 堀 尾 忠 晴 ; 1599–1633), started by mistake to repair the castle of the same name here in Ise and to take the castle tower apart. From 1641 the newly built three-story watchtower took over the function of the castle tower.
Today the castle grounds, now a public park, are used by a primary and a secondary school and by shrines. On the stone base of the castle tower, a castle building placed on the wall, an "elongated watchtower" ( 多 聞 櫓 , tamon-yagura ), has been preserved as a corner building.
South of the castle, the road connecting Edo, today's Tokyo, and Kyoto passed, the Tōkaidō . Kameyama appears in woodcut series from the Edo period with the post stations on this street. The sheet by Hiroshige that shows the castle is particularly well known.
literature
- Kato, Masafumi: Kameyama-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
- Nishigaya, Yasuhiro (Ed.): Isekameyama-jo. In: Nihon meijo zukan, Rikogaku-sha, 1993. ISBN 4-8445-3017-8 .
