Yatsushiro Castle
| Yatsushiro Castle | ||
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 Yatsushiro Castle |
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| Creation time : | around 1600 | |
| Castle type : | Hirayamajiro (hill castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Partly reconstructed | |
| Place: | Yatsushiro | |
| Geographical location | 32 ° 30 '26.8 " N , 130 ° 35' 59.6" E | |
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The castle Yatsushiro ( Japanese 八代城 , Yatsushiro-jō ) is located in the city of Yatsushiro , Kumamoto Prefecture . In the Edo period , the castle was a secondary residence, most recently the Hosokawa ( Tozama-Daimyō ).
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- Second residence of the Kato,
- From 1632 secondary residence of the Hosokawa.
history
Yatsushiro Castle is located at the mouth of the Kuma River ( 球磨 川 , Kumagawa ) in the bay in front of Yatsushiro. As one of the side castles of Kumamoto Castle , it was built in 1620 by Katō Tadahiro ( 加藤 忠 広 ; 1597-1653), Katō Kiyomasa's son, as the old Mugishima Castle ( 麦 島城 , Mugishima-jō ) on an island in the river in 1619 destroyed by an earthquake.
The almost rectangular central castle area, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ), was built on the east side by the Ni-no-maru ( 二 の 丸 ), on the west side by the San-no-maru ( 三 の 丸 ) and on the north side by the Kita-no- maru ( 北 の 丸 ) and protected by an upstream area, the demaru ( 出 丸 ). The castle was surrounded by stone walls, whereby the stone wall of the Kita-no-maru was not completed and it remained with an earth wall.
After the Katō lost it with the Kumamoto Castle, the Hosokawa took it over. Hosokawa Fujitaka ( 細 川 藤 孝 ; 1534–1610) settled in Kita-no-maru after he had retired from active life. Tatsutaka ( 立 孝 ; 1615-1645), fourth son of Hosokawa Tadaoki (1564-1645) established himself in the Hommaru.
After the death of the two, the elder of the Hosokawa, Matsui Okinaga ( 松井 興 長 ; 1582–1661), received Yatsushiro Castle. The Matsui resided there until the Meiji Restoration with an income of 30,000 Koku, with which they were treated like daimyo.
In 1672 the castle tower ( tenshukaku ) and some watchtowers were lost due to a lightning strike , the castle tower was not rebuilt. Another lightning strike in 1797 also lost the side tower to the castle tower, the residence in Hommaru and a three-story watchtower, but were rebuilt.
At the beginning of the Meiji period , the castle was largely demolished and the residence in Hommaru was converted into a school. After serving as a military hospital during the Satsuma Rebellion , it was relocated to the city and now served as a school again. First it was called Daijōkō ( 代 城 校 ), then it was renamed the Municipal Daiyō Elementary School ( 八 代 市立 代 陽 小学校 , Yatsushiro shiritsu Daiyō shogakkō) . In 1986 the old building was lost in a fire.
In the Hommaru Yatsushiro shrine ( 八 代 宮 , Yatsushiro-gū ) was built to worship Seiseishōgun-no-miya ( 征西 将軍 宮 ; 1329-1383). There is also the Matsui Shrine ( 松井 神社 , Matsui-jinja ), in which the first two lords of the castle from the Matsui family are venerated.
The haiku poet Nishiyama Sōin , who came from Yatsushiro, is also remembered at the castle .
photos
Remains of Mugishima Castle
Yatsushiro Castle plan
Yatsushiro shrine
Stele for Nishiyama Sōin
literature
- Ikeda, Koichi: Yatsushiro-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
- Nishigaya, Yasuhiro (Ed.): Yatsushiro-jo. In: Nihon meijo zukan, Rikogaku-sha, 1993. ISBN 4-8445-3017-8 .
