Zeze Castle

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Zeze Castle
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Zeze Castle

Castle type : Hirajirō (low castle)
Conservation status: little received
Place: Ōtsu
Geographical location 34 ° 59 '43 "  N , 135 ° 53' 43.3"  E Coordinates: 34 ° 59 '43 "  N , 135 ° 53' 43.3"  E
Zeze Castle (Shiga Prefecture)
Zeze Castle

The castle Zeze ( Japanese 膳所城 , Zeze-jō ) is located in the city of Ōtsu , ( Shiga Prefecture ). In the Edo period , a branch of the Honda resided there , which belonged to the smaller Fudai daimyo .

Lords of the castle in the Edo period

  • From 1602 a branch of Toda with an income of 30,000 koku .
  • From 1617 a branch of the Honda with 30,000 Koku.
  • From 1621 the Suganuma with 31,000 Koku.
  • From 1634 a branch of Ishikawa with 70,000 koku.
  • From 1651 a branch of the Honda with 70,000 Koku again.

history

Before the incorporation as an independent place between Ōtsu and the bridge over the Seta on Lake Biwa, Zeze was a traffic and trading point. On the instructions of Tokugawa Ieyasu , the construction of a castle began there in 1601. In the course of time, only daimyo who were close to Bakufu resided there in order to control access to Kyōto from there.

A special feature was the central area built into Lake Biwa, the Hommaru (本 丸), in which the four-story castle tower was also located. The second area, the Ni-no-maru (二 ノ 丸), was largely surrounded by the lake. Both areas were connected to the mainland by narrow bridges. This was followed by the third (三 ノ 丸, San-no-maru) and the northern area (北 ノ 丸, Kita-no-maru), which were surrounded by a wide moat and protected the entrance to the castle. When the castle was badly damaged in a major earthquake in 1682, the Hommaru was combined with the Ni-no-maru during the reconstruction. However, the character of a moated castle was retained.

At the beginning of the Meiji period , the castle was demolished. Thereby gates came to the Shinto shrines Zeze-jinja and Shinozu-jinja in the vicinity and were thus preserved, both as important cultural assets .

photos

  • Old plan

  • The castle on the sheet "Awazu"

  • View of the Hommaru today

  • The Mogi Gate

Remarks

  1. ↑ Suzuki Harunobu : "Fresh Breeze at Awazu" (from the Eight Views of Lake Biwa (excerpt)). In the foreground two watchtowers, in the background the castle tower.
  2. ↑ From a series of Eight Views by Utagawa Hiroshige .

literature

  • Hashiba, Akira: Zeze-jo in: Miura, Masayuki (ed.): Shiro to jinya. Saikoku-hen. Gakken, 2006, ISBN 978-4-05-604379-2 .
  • Inoue Takashi (Ed.): Shiga-ken no rekishi sampo (jo). Yamakawa Shuppan, 2000, ISBN 978-4-634-29250-5 .

Web links

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