Kurume Castle
| Kurume Castle | ||
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 Kurume Castle, Hommaru southwest side |
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| Alternative name (s): | Sasahara Castle ( 笹 原 城 , Sasahara-jō) | |
| Creation time : | from 1587 | |
| Castle type : | Hirajiro (Lower Castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Wall systems partially preserved | |
| Place: | Kurume | |
| Geographical location | 33 ° 19 '42.3 " N , 130 ° 30' 28" E | |
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The Kurume Castle ( Japanese 久留 米 城 , Kurume-jō ) is located in the city of Kurume , ( Fukuoka Prefecture ). In the Edo period , the Arima last resided there as the great Tozama daimyo .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
history
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi had subjugated Kyūshū, Mori Hidekane ( 毛利 秀 包 ; 1567-1601) received Kurume as part of his new division of provinces in 1587 . Hidekane began building a castle in the late Sengoku period, possibly on the basis of an older complex.
After the Battle of Sekigahara , Hidekane lost the castle as an opponent to Tokugawa Ieyasu . It became a neighboring castle to Yanagawa Castle ( 柳川 城 , Yanagawa-jō ), with which Ishida Mitsunari was now entrusted. Then Tanaka Yoshimasa ( 田中 吉 政 ; 1548–1609) became lord of the castle. But since his son Tadamasa ( 忠 政 ) had no offspring, the fiefdom reverted to the shogunate in 1620.
Now Arima Toshiuji ( 有 馬 豊 氏 ; 1569–1642), coming from Fukuchiyama Castle , received the castle. The Arima remained lords of the castle until the end of the Tokugawa period .
The attachment
The castle complex consisted of the three areas, the innermost, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ), the second, Ni-no-maru ( 二 ノ 丸 ), and the third, San-no-maru ( 三 ノ 丸 ), which were laid out one behind the other. The Hommaru was protected by seven watchtowers ( 櫓 , yagura ). Since there was no castle tower ( 天 守 閣 , tenshukaku ), one of the watchtowers took over this function.
The stone walls of the Hommaru with the bases of the towers have been preserved. A small piece of the innermost moat can be seen on the southwest corner of the Hommaru. The temple Dajō-in ( 大乗 院 ) and the shrine Sasayama-jinja ( 篠 山 神社 ) are located on the tree-lined castle grounds .
Remarks
- ↑ In front the Hitsujisaru watchtower ( 坤 櫓 , Hitsujisaru-yagura ) , i.e. the watchtower at the southwest corner of a castle or here the Hommaru, according to the twelve branches of the earth , the Tatsumi watchtower ( 巽 櫓 , Tatsumi-yagura ) in the back, correspondingly at the southeast corner of the Hommaru.
literature
- Yamanouchi, Junji: Kurume-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
- Nishigaya, Yasuhiro (Ed.): Kurume-jo. In: Nihon meijo zukan, Rikogaku-sha, 1993. ISBN 4-8445-3017-8 .
