Yoshida Castle

Yoshida Castle
	Yoshida Castle, Kurogane Watchtower
Creation time :	1505?
Castle type :	Hirajiro (Lower Castle)
Conservation status:	Partly reconstructed
Place:	Toyohashi
Geographical location	34 ° 46 '12.5 " N , 137 ° 23' 36.1" E Coordinates: 34 ° 46 '12.5 " N , 137 ° 23' 36.1" E

Yoshida Castle, around 1868

The Yoshida Castle ( Japanese 吉田城 , Yoshida-jō ) is located in the city of Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture . In the Edo period , a branch of the Ōkōchi resided there as the larger Fudai daimyō .

Lords of the castle in the Edo period

From 1601 the Takenoya Matsudaira with an income of 30,000 Koku ,
From 1612 the Fukōzu with 30,000 Koku,
From 1632 a branch of the Mizuno with 40,000 Koku,
From 1642 a branch of the Mizuno with 45,000 Koku,
From 1645 a branch of the Ogasawara with 45,000 Koku,
From 1697 the Kuze with 50,000 Koku,
From 1705 a branch of Makino with 80,000 Koku,
From 1712 a branch of the Ōkōchi with 70,000 koku,
From 1729 a branch of the Honjō with 70,000 Koku,
From 1749 the Ōkōchi again with 70,000 koku.

history

Yoshida Castle was called Imahashi Castle ( 今橋城 ) in the Middle Ages . In 1505 it is said to have been built by Makino Kohaku ( 牧野古伯 ; † 1506) at the request of the governor ( shugo ) of Suruga Province , Imagawa Ujichika ( 今川氏親 ; † 1526) . After the Imagawa perished in the Battle of Okehazama , Tokugawa Ieyasu took over the castle and put his important vassal Sakai Tadatsugu ( 酒井忠次 ; 1527–1596) there. When Ieyasu then took over the Kantō region in 1590, he gave the castle to Ikeda Terumasa ( 池田輝政 ; 1565-1613) with an income of 150,000 Koku. This expanded the castle considerably. In 1601 Takenoya Iekiyo took over the castle. A number of other lords of the castle followed in the Edo period , until a branch of the Ōkōchi took over the castle again from 1749 and resided there until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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Yoshida Castle (see text)

The castle measured 1.2 km from east to west and 750 m from north to south. The central castle area, the Hommaru ( 本丸 ; 1) on the Toyokawa ( 豊川 ) River, was framed by the second and third castle area, the Ni-no-maru ( 二ノ丸 ; 2) and San-no-maru ( 三ノ丸 ; 3). The entire samurai area, the Jōkamachi , was also protected by a ditch. Inside the castle there were nine watchtowers ( 櫓 , yagura ), but no castle tower ( 天守 , tenshu ).

After the Meiji restoration , the castle complex was largely preserved, but the old buildings were demolished. Until 1945 the area was used by the 18th Infantry Regiment ( 歩兵第十八連隊 , Hohei dai-18-rentai ). In 1954, a three-story watchtower in concrete (marked orange in the drawing) was restored on the site of the Kurogane watchtower ( 鉄櫓 , Kurogane-yagura ). In the Hommaru and Ni-no-maru walls, earth walls and waterless ditches have been preserved.

Remarks

↑ Takenoya Iekiyo ( 竹谷家清 ; 1566-1611) came from a sideline of the Matsudaira , which died out with him.

literature

Odawara: Yoshida-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Tokoku-hen. Gakken, 2006. ISBN 978-4-05-604378-5 , p. 100.

Web links

Commons : Yoshida Castle - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[1] Takenoya Iekiyo ( 竹谷家清 ; 1566-1611) came from a sideline of the Matsudaira , which died out with him.