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Work on Ritsurin Koen started in 1642 and was completed over a 100 year period. It was the pleasure garden of three successive feudal lords (daimyo) in Takamatsu.
The Dungeon.
This building had been also rebuilt from wood in 1993. The castle in Keicho, the eary Edo period, was the model for rebuit dungeon. The feudal load of the castle was Kazutoyo Yamanouchi at that time.
平林寺にある大河内松平家一族の墓所。川越城主松平伊豆守信綱を祖とする一族の墓所。
The old graveyard for the ancestral Ohkouchi Matsudaira's who were originated from Nobutsuna, a daimyo of the early Edo period, who ruled the Kawagoe Domain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsudaira_Nobutsuna
Date: 1st January 2010
Location: 埼玉県新座市野火止3-1-1
3-1-1 Mobidome, Niiza, Saitama, Japan
Photo by Yoshitaka Tokusho
The 1988 reconstruction of the original Oshi Castle. Oshi Castle (Oshi-jo) was built by the daimyo Narita Akiyasu near the end of the 15th century. It was considered impregnable, and was built using the natural levee of the surrounding marshlands and river. When it was attacked by the army of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (who ruled Japan in the latter half of the 16th century) it was besieged by over 20,000 soldiers. The castle did not fall even when it was flooded by water drawn in from the nearby river. After that it was rumored that the castle had been able to withstand the flood because it floats on water. The largest turret in Oshi Castle is Gosankai Yagura, although it was demolished in the latter half of the 19th century when political power changed from the Edo shogunate to the Meiji government, due to its condemnation as a symbol of the samurai. The existing turret was reconstructed in 1988.
Work on Ritsurin Koen started in 1642 and was completed over a 100 year period. It was the pleasure garden of three successive feudal lords (daimyo) in Takamatsu.
Zuiho-in, another temple. The daimyo who was the first patron of this temple converted to Christianity late in his life. Because Christianity was illegal at that time, the monks buried a statue of the Virgin Mary under the dry landscape garden to honor his memory.