Kameyama Castle (Tamba)
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| Castle type : | Hirayamajiro (hill castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Partly reconstructed | |
| Place: | Kameyama | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 0 '48.8 " N , 135 ° 34' 52.3" E | |
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The Kameyama Castle ( Japanese 亀 山城 , Kameyama-jō ) is located in the city of Kameoka , formerly Tamba Province , now Kyoto Prefecture . In the Edo period , nine smaller and medium-sized daimyo resided there one after the other , most recently the Katahara Matsudaira with an income of 50,000 koku .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- 1595 Maeda Gen'i with 50,000 Koku
- from 1609 the okabe with 32,000 koku.
- from 1621 a branch of the Matsudaira (Ogyū) with 22,000 koku
- from 1634 the Suganuma with 41,000 Koku,
- from 1648 a branch of the Matsudaira (Fujii) with 38,000 Koku,
- from 1686 the Kuze with 50,000 Koku
- from 1697 the Inoue with 47,000 Koku
- from 1702 a branch of the Aoyama with 50,000 Koku and
- from 1748 the Katahara Matsudaira with 50,000 koku.
history
Kameyma Castle was built in the Tenshō period (1573 to 1592) by Akechi Mitsuhide at a strategic location in the Tamba province, namely at the entrance to Kyoto from the northwest. In 1609, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was planning the castle for an attack on the Toyotomi castle, i.e. Osaka, he included it in his considerations and began to strengthen it comprehensively. He commissioned the most famous castle builder at the time, the Daimyō Tōdō Takatora, with this task, which was finished after a year of construction.
The castle was built on a hill south of the Ōi River ( 大 堰 川 ). The central castle area, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ), was surrounded by an inner moat ( 内 堀 , uchibori ), which in turn was protected by further moats, the Sotobori ( 外 堀 ) and further outside, the Sōgamaebori ( 総 構 堀 ).
The five-story castle tower ( 天 守 閣 , tenshukaku ) stood in the middle of the Hommaru. It was the first in this tower shape, but dispensed with any gable or other decorations. The top floor, however, had a walkway with a high railing and a decorated gable.
Based on traditional plans and old photos, the castle, surrounded by a very high stone wall, had a magnificent appearance. The stone walls of the Hommaru can still be seen today. However, they were renewed at the beginning of the Shōwa period , so they are not the original walls. The main temple of the Ōmoto sect that was established in 1892 is located on the castle grounds .
Two smaller castle gates have been preserved, they were moved to other places in the village.
photos
Old plan of the castle
The castle tower
Castle tower model
In the castle
In the castle
At the moat
In the castle
Remarks
- ↑ This river is then called the Hozu River ( 保 津 川 ) behind Kameoka and later in the Kyōto plains Katsura River ( 桂 川 ).
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.): Kameyama-jo. In: Nihon meijo zukan, Rikogaku-sha, 1993. ISBN 4-8445-3017-8 .
