Tanaka Castle
| Tanaka Castle | ||
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 Tanaka, Hommaru Wachtum |
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| Creation time : | before 1570 | |
| Castle type : | Hirajiro (Lower Castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Partly reconstructed | |
| Place: | Fujieda | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 52 '19.2 " N , 138 ° 16' 28.6" E | |
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The castle Tanaka ( Japanese 田中城 , Tanaka-jō ) is located in the city of Fujieda , Shizuoka Prefecture . In the Edo period , twelve smaller Fudai daimyo resided there one after the other .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- From 1601 a branch of the Sakai with an income of 10,000 koku.
- From 1633 a branch of the Matsudaira (Sakurai) with 25,000 Koku.
- From 1635 a branch of the Mizuno with 45,000 Koku.
- From 1642 Matsudaira (Fujii) with 25,000 Koku.
- From 1644 Hōjō Ujishi with 25,000 Koku.
- From 1648 Nishio with 25,000 Koku.
- From 1678 a branch of the Sakurai with 25,000 koku.
- From 1681 the Tsuchiya with 45,000 Koku.
- From 1684 a display of the Ōta with 50,000 koku.
- From 1705 a branch of Naitō 99 with 50,000 Koku.
- From 1712 a branch of the Toki with 35,000 Koku.
- From 1730 a branch of the Honda with 40,000 Koku.
history
In 1570, Takeda Shingen took the Imai from Suruga Province from the Tokuishiki ( 徳 一色 城 , Tokuitchiki-jō ) neighboring castle . He renamed it Tanaka Castle and instructed his caretaker Baba Nobufuki ( 馬 場 信 房 ; 1514-1575) to expand it. After the Takeda became extinct, the castle came to Tokugawa Ieyasu . She, which served as a secondary residence of Nakamura Kazuuji ( 中 村 一 氏 ; † 1600) led Sumpu Castle , was taken over in 1601 by Sakai Tadatoshi ( 酒井 忠 利 ; 1559-1627). Tadatoshi was transferred to Kawagoe in Musashi Province as early as 1609 .
When Ieyasu had retired from his offices in 1607 and resided in Sumpu, he took over Tanaka himself from 1609 and had a secondary residence built there. Because he was there often to go falcon hunting. It was then also in Tanaka when Ieyasu collapsed and died in 1616 after eating a fish meal.
It was not until 1633 that the castle was given back to a daimyo, initially to Sakurai-Matsudaira Tadashige ( 松 平 忠 重 ; 1601–1639), who was transferred to Kakegawa after two years . And so it went on alternately until a branch of Honda took over the castle in 1730 and resided there until 1868.
The attachment
Tanaka Castle was located on a flat hill and consisted of a square, innermost area, the Hommaru, around which the second and third castle areas (Ni-no-maru and San-no-maru) were laid out in a circle. This concentric complex with its diameter of 600 m is unique among Japanese castles. It can no longer be determined whether Takeda Shingen had already laid out the castle in this way, in any case it is a complex without blind spots, the defense is possible with a minimal occupation. There was no castle tower in the Hommaru, but a residence that was reserved for the Shogun. The lord's residence was in San-no-maru.
After the demolition of the castle and all of its buildings, the Nishimashizu elementary and middle school was built there; only a very small part of the moats and earth walls still exist. In recent years, some smaller buildings have been rebuilt as the "historic site of the secondary residence of Tanaka Castle" ( 史跡 田中 城 下 屋 敷 , Shiseki Tanaka-jō shimo-yashiki ).
literature
Owada, Yasutsune: Tanaka-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 , p. 100.
