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Himeji is the finest castle in Japan and one of the only originals left standing the rest are replicas. Its one of the only ones with UN heritage listing.
Its around 400 years old and was the seat of the local Daimyo (warlord).
Himeji Castle
Himeji
Japan
Shunkoji is the family temple of the Matsui daimyo, who ruled Yatsushiro for most of the Edo Period (1642-1867). It was built in Kyoto in 1583 and brought to Yatsushiro when the clan moved to Kyushu.
Matsumoto Castle (松本城, Matsumoto-jō?) is one of Japan's finest historic castles. It is located in the city of Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture and is within easy reach of Tokyo by road or rail.
The keep (tenshukaku), which was completed in the late 16th century, maintains its original wooden interiors and external stonework. It is listed as a National Treasure of Japan.
Matsumoto Castle is a flatland castle (hirajiro) because it is not built on a hilltop or amid rivers, but on a plain. Its complete defences would have included an extensive system of inter-connecting walls, moats and gatehouses.
In 1872, following the Meiji Restoration, the site, like many former daimyos' castles, was sold at auction for redevelopment. However, when news broke that the keep was going to be demolished, an influential figure from Matsumoto, Ichikawa Ryōzō, along with residents from Matsumoto started a campaign to save the building. Their efforts were rewarded when the tower was acquired by the city government.[1]
In the late Meiji period the keep started to lean to one side. An old picture (shown below) clearly shows how the keep looked like then. It was because of neglect coupled with a structural defect, but a lot of people believed the story of Tada Kasuke's curse[2].
A local high school principal, Kobayashi Unari, decided to renovate the castle and appealed for funds. [3] The castle underwent "the great Meiji renovation" between 1903-1913[4]. It underwent another renovation "the great Shōwa renovation" in the period 1950-1955[5].
In 1990, the Kuromon-Ninomon (second gate of the Black Gate) and sodebei (side wall) were reconstructed. The square drum gate was reconstructed in 1999.
There is a plan for restoring the soto-bori(outer moat) which was reclaimed for a residential zone[6].
[edit] History
The castle's origins go back to the Sengoku period. At that time Shimadachi Sadanaga of the Ogasawara clan built a fort on this site in 1504 which was originally called Fukashi Castle. In 1550 it came under the rule of the Takeda clan and then Tokugawa Ieyasu.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi transferred Ieyasu to the Kantō region, he placed Ishikawa Norimasa in charge of Matsumoto. Norimasa and his son Yasunaga built the tower and other parts of the castle, including the three towers: the keep and the small tower in the northwest, both begun in 1590, and the Watari Tower; the residence; the drum gate; the black gate, the Tsukimi Yagura, the moat, the innermost bailey, the second bailey, the third bailey, and the sub-floors in the castle, much as they are today. They were also instrumental in laying out the castle town and its infrastructure. It is believed much of the castle was completed by 1593–94.
During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate established the Matsumoto Domain, of which the Matsudaira, Mizuno and others were the daimyo.
For the next 280 years until the abolition of the feudal system in the Meiji Restoration, the castle was ruled by the 23 lords of Matsumoto representing six different daimyo families. In this period the stronghold was also known as Crow Castle (烏城, Karasu-jo?) because its black walls and roofs looked like spreading wings.
In 1952 the keep, Inui-ko-tenshu (small northern tower), Watari-yagura (roofed passage), Tatsumi-tsuke-yagura (southern wing), and Tsukimi-yagura (moon-viewing room) were designated as national treasures.
The second floor of the main keep features a gun museum, Teppo Gura, with a collection of guns, armor and other weapons.
I was overjoyed when I found these hats. Sadly, they were really expensive and looked really awful on me. Damiyo, Fukuoka.
edo tokyo museum, tokyo, japan has fantastic displays of everyday life in the edo period c.1603-1870. the building itself is worth the price of admission (about 6 bucks) and the displays are perfect. museum is located in royagoku district, right behind the huge arena where sumo wrestling matches are fought.
These guys were signing autographs and trying to convince people to go to their show later on - I think they are dressed up as shoguns and/or daimyos
Nagoya Castle
Nagoya
Japan
Kakegawa castle (掛川城). It was first built by Asahina Yasuhiro in 1487. It hosted several feudal lords (daimyo) who ruled over Totomi province, particularly Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Oeyo, also known as Ogō, was the third and youngest daughter of the Sengoku period daimyo Azai Nagamasa. Her mother, Oichi was the younger sister of Oda Nobunaga.
Exposition
DAIMYO - Seigneurs de la guerre au Japon
Par George Henry Longly
Du 16/02/2018 au 13/05/2018
Palais de Tokyo
Le Musée national des arts asiatiques - Guimet et le Palais de Tokyo, réunissent dans le cadre d'un partenariat inédit, un ensemble exceptionnel d’armures et d’attributs de daimyo, ces puissants gouverneurs qui régnaient au Japon entre le XIIe et le XIXe siècle.
Unlike the other markers we have seen for daimyô mansions, where the domain encompassed the entire province, here we have the site of the mansion of a smaller domain. I suppose, either because there were multiple domains in Hizen province, or because there were multiple Kashima domains across the archipelago (were there?), they have decided to spell things out here more explicitly.
肥前 - Hizen (Province) - a placename; today Saga and Nagasaki prefectures
鹿島 - Kashima - another placename; the chief town of the domain and thus also the name of the domain
鍋島 - Nabeshima - the family name of the lords of Kashima Domain
藩 - han - domain
The rest is covered by the flowers, but I think it safe to assume it says 邸跡 or 屋敷跡, either of which would mean the site of a mansion.
Kashima was a sub-domain of the more prominent Saga domain, and was ruled by a branch family of the Nabeshima, the leading lineage of which ran Saga domain. Its territory was quite small, more or less covering the same area as modern-day Kashima City, and as a sub-domain, it was not permitted by the shogunate to have a castle, so Kashima only had a jin'ya, an administrative and residential building for the lords and their staffs, probably comparable to the daimyo mansions of other domains minus the entire rest of the castle complex surrounding them...
It's interesting that such a marker exists for the Kashima Domain when markers do not exist for so many other domains. Did only a few domains have Kyoto mansions? If so, why did Kashima have one?
(Of course, even though they get a stone marker, there's no wooden plaque explaining anything, like there were for Kaga and Tosa.)
The word maru (丸, meaning "circle") is often attached to Japanese ship names. The first ship known to follow this convention was the Nippon Maru, flagship of daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi's 16th century fleet.
Rinshunkaku 1: Built in 1649 by Tokugawa Yorinobu, Daimyo (feudal lord) of Kishu Province (now Wakayama Prefecture), as his second home.
In the Edo period, the Tosa han mansion stood in this area, extending from the west bank of the Takase Canal west to Kawaramachi. At that time, a gate to the mansion faced the canal, and opened onto the so-called "Tosabashi" ("Tosa Bridge") which extended over the canal.
The mansion was established some time early in the Edo period, but in 1690, laws were more specifically put into place requiring the defense of these Kyoto mansions. The mansions served as offices for communications between the provincial domain and Kyoto, and as representative sites for the domain, interacting with both samurai authorities and with townsmen (chônin; merchants).
Along with Satsuma and Chôshû, Tosa was one of the domains which seized the initiative in dominating political events of the Bakumatsu period. Takechi Zuizan, Sakamoto Ryôma, Nakaoka Shintarô, Gotô Shôjirô, and others were active at that time as shishi (anti-shogunate rebels / Imperial loyalists). The mansion was, of course, the focal point of all Tosa activity in Kyoto.
Two Shinto shrines strongly associated with Tosa han were located to the west side of the mansion, and townspeople were permitted to pass through the mansion in order to visit these shrines.
Expo Daymio - Seigneurs de la Guerre au Japon.
Musée Guimet (MNAAG), Paris (75).
Ailettes (fukigaeshi) du casque (kabuto), les ailettes portent les armoiries du clan.
Casque 32 lamelles de type suji-bachi, composé de fer, soir, laque et shakudo (mélange de cuivre et d'or).
Ce casque porte les armoiries de la famille Akita, il fut porté par Akita Morisue 4eme daimyo de Miharu.
Casque du 17eme siècle.