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Castles of Japan; Japan Top 100 Castles and castle ruins Archived 2016-09-18 at the Wayback Machine; Photos of Japanese Castles Archived 2013-03-30 at the Wayback Machine; The Japan's Modern Castles YouTube channel, featuring virtual tours of castle sites and discussing their modern history
During the Sengoku period, because of constant warfare, many fortifications and castles were built. Archetypal Japanese castle construction is a product of the Momoyama period and early Edo period. [2] A new era of castle construction began when the daimyo Nobunaga built Azuchi Castle from 1576 to 1579. [3]
K. Kaetsu border castle ruins; Kagamiyama Castle (Higashihiroshima) Kagenouma Kōgoishi; Kagomori Castle; Kagoshima Castle; Kamaha Castle; Kameyama Castle (Kyoto)
The castle compound was renamed Tokyo Castle (東京城, Tōkei-jō) [7] [user-generated source] in October, 1868, and then renamed Imperial Castle (皇城, Kōjō) in 1869. In the year Meiji 2 (1868), on the 23rd day of the 10th month of the Japanese calendar the emperor moved to Tokyo and Edo castle became an imperial palace.
This is an incomplete list of castles in Japan, and focuses on those with some historical notability. Five of Japan's castles ( Hikone , Himeji , Inuyama , Matsue and Matsumoto ) are National Treasures .
Azuchi Castle was demolished in 1582 by Akechi Mitsuhide after his assassination of Nobunaga in the Honno-ji Incident. Many researchers agree that Azuchi Castle was the catalyst for the establishment of early modern castles in Japan from the Azuchi–Momoyama period onwards. Yamajiro (山城, lit.
Kanazawa Castle showing the Hashizume-mon Tsuzuki Yagura watchtower, Hashizume-ichi-no-mon Gate, and moat. During the late Muromachi period, the Ikkō-ikki, followers of the teachings of priest Rennyo, of the Jōdo Shinshū sect, displaced the official governors of Kaga Province, the Togashi clan, and established a kind of theocratic republic later known as "The Peasants' Kingdom".
This is a list of foreign-style castles in Japan. In Japan, the word ' 城 ( shiro ) has broader meanings than western world, so this list includes the buildings near to fortresses . Korean style castles