Tottori Castle
| Tottori Castle | ||
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 Tottori Castle, Upper Castle |
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| Creation time : | 2nd half of the 16th century | |
| Castle type : | Mountain and low castle | |
| Conservation status: | Masonry preserved | |
| Place: | Tottori | |
| Geographical location | 35 ° 30 '26.7 " N , 134 ° 14' 24" E | |
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The castle Tottori ( Japanese 鳥取城 , Tottori-jō ) is located in the city of Tottori , Tottori Prefecture . In the Edo period , various branches of the Ikeda resided there , most recently as the great Tozama daimyo .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- From 1600 Ikeda Nagayoshi with 60,000 Koku,
- From 1617 Ikeda Mitsumasa (1609–1682), moving from Himeji Castle with 320,000 Koku,
- From 1632 Ikeda Mitsunaka (1630–1693), moving from Okayama Castle with 320,000 Koku.
history
In the middle of the 16th century, Yamana Suketoyo ( 山 名 祐 豊 ; 1511–1580) broke into the province of Inaba from the province of Tajima . He is said to have built a castle there as a kind of bridgehead. In 1581 Toyotomi expelled Hideyoshi , then his name was Hashiba, the Yamana. Then Kikkawa Tsuneie ( 吉川 経 家 ; 1547–1581) occupied the castle, but was besieged and had to give up after four months. Now Miyabe Keijun ( 宮 部 継 潤 ; † 1599) moved in; under him and the modern castle was built.
Since the Miyabe were on the losing side during the Battle of Sekigahara , they subsequently lost their possessions. In their place moved in Ikeda Nagayoshi ( 池田 長 吉 ; 1570-1614), the younger brother of Ikeda Terumasa ( 池田 輝 政 ; 1565-1613). He generously expanded the residence at the foot of the mountain and gave the complex its current appearance.
The attachment
The Tottori Castle consisted of two spatially separated parts, the Sanjō-no-maru ( 山上 の 丸 ) on the mountain and the Sange-no-maru ( 山下 の 丸 ) at the foot . After the expansion during the Sengoku period , the upper castle consisted of the central area, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ) with the two-story castle tower ( 天 守 閣 , tenshukaku ) on the northwest side and a second and third area, the Ni-no-maru ( 二 の 丸 ) and the San-no-maru ( 三 の 丸 ). The Hommaru in particular has been preserved.
The lower castle then consisted of the Ni-no-maru with the three-story watchtower and San-no.maru, supplemented by the Tenkyū-maru ( 天球 丸 ). Upstream was the Maru-no-uchi ( 丸 の 内 ). The lower castle was protected at the back by the mountain and at the front by a wide moat. The center of the lower castle was the Ni-no-maru, on the southwest corner of which there was a three-story watchtower ( 御 三階 櫓 , Go-sangai-yagura ), which acted as a castle tower.
After the Meiji restoration , the buildings, watchtowers and gates were demolished. Only the simple gate between the Ni-no-maru and San-no-maru, the Nakashikiri Gate ( 中 仕切 門 ), remained. The carefully executed walls and moat have also been preserved.
In 1907 the pavilion Jimpū-kaku ( 仁 風 閣 ) was built in the French Renaissance style for the stay of the Crown Prince and later Emperor Taishō at the southwest end of the lower castle grounds . It was then used by Prince Ikeda Nakahiro ( 池田 仲 博 , 1877–1948), the 14th head of the Ikeda in Tottori. Today the building is a museum on the history of the Ikeda family. Behind the building is the Japanese garden Hōryūin-teien ( 宝隆 院 庭園 ), which the widow of the 11th head of Ikeda had laid out.
The Tottori Prefecture Museum ( 鳥取 県 立 博物館 , Tottori kenritsu hakubutsukan ) , which opened in 1972, is located in the lower part of the castle .
photos
Old plan
Ni-no-maru view, early Meiji period
Trench with Jimpu pavilion
Nakashikiri Gate
Remarks
- ↑ The name, something like "pavilion of the noble kind", is said to go back to Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō .
literature
- Kato, Masafumi: Tottori-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
- Nishigaya, Yasuhiro (Ed.): Tottori-jo. In: Nihon meijo zukan, Rikogaku-sha, 1993. ISBN 4-8445-3017-8 .
