Yodo Castle
| Yodo Castle | ||
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 Yodo Castle, base of the castle tower |
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| Castle type : | Hirajiro (Lower Castle) | |
| Conservation status: | Partly walls and ditches | |
| Place: | Yodo | |
| Geographical location | 34 ° 54 '18.2 " N , 135 ° 43' 3.7" E | |
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The castle Yodo ( Japanese 淀城 , Yodo-jō ) is located in Yodo-honmachi in the southern district Fushimi the city Kyoto . In the Edo period , a branch of the Inaba resided there as a larger Fudai daimyo .
Lords of the castle in the Edo period
- From 1625 a branch of Hisamatsu-Matsudaira with an income of 35,000 koku ,
- from 1633 a branch of the Nagai with 100,000 koku,
- from 1669 a branch of the Ishikawa with 60,000 koku,
- from 1711 a branch of Toda with 60,000 Koku,
- from 1717 a branch of the Ōgyū-Matsudaira with 60,000 koku,
- from 1625 a branch of the Inaba with 102,000 Koku.
history
In 1613 the second Tokugawa shogun ordered Hidetada to build a castle on the Yodo River at the time he was demolishing Fushimi Castle. That was roughly where Princess Yodo ( 淀 殿 , Yodo-dono ; 1569-1615), Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wife , once lived in a castle on a branch of the Yodo River.
Materials from Fushimi Castle were used for the construction , and there were even plans to use the castle tower from there. Ultimately, however, they were content with erecting watchtowers at the four corners of the stone base that had already been built, which - similar to the Himeji Castle - resulted in a castle tower ensemble.
Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) Sadatsuna ( 松 平 定 綱 ; 1592–1652) was the first to move in . Then more daimyo followed until a branch of the Inaba took over the castle. The Inaba remained lords of the castle until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
The attachment
The castle was built on a flat island. Surrounded by the Uji-gawa ( 宇 治 川 ) and Katsuragawa ( 桂 川 ) one can speak of a "castle floating on the water" ( 浮 城 , ukijiro ).
As usual, the castle consisted of a central area, the Hommaru ( 本 丸 ; 1) with the castle tower ( 天 守 , tenshu ) ensemble (marked orange in the drawing), with the second area, the Ni-no-maru, in the north ( 二 の 丸 ; 2), connected. In the west, the western pre-area ( 西 曲 輪 , Nishi-kuruwa ; N) was built in front, in the east the third area, the San-no-maru (三 の 丸; 3), and the eastern pre-area ( 東 曲 輪 , Higashi- kuruwa ; H).
When the shogunate troops withdrew to the south in the battle of Toba-Fushimi in 1868 to seek protection in the castle, the lords of the castle, the Inaba, although Fudai-daimyo, refused. The castle thus escaped being destroyed in the war.
After the Meiji restoration , the castle was demolished. Among other things, the mighty base of the castle tower has been preserved. The trenches were filled in except for a part in the west and south of the Hommaru (dark blue in the drawing), as were the watercourses.
The Shikinai Yodo Shrine ( 式 内 與 杼 神社 , -jinja ) is located on the castle grounds . Originally a Buddhist temple, it was converted into a shrine after 1868 as part of the separation of Buddhism and Shintoism ( Shinbutsu-Bunri ).
literature
- Hashiba, Akira: Yodo-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (Ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. p. 16. ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
