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*''Built: late Kamakura period''
*''Dismantled: 1590s''
*''Japanese'': 松倉城 ''(Matsukura-jou)''
Matsukura castle was a fortress located in [[Etchu province|Etchû province]], roughly six km upriver from [[Uozu castle]] along the Kadokawa, and about 430 m above sea level, on Mt. Kakuma. Only a stone marker stands today on the site.
It was originally built towards the end of the [[Kamakura period]], and was the scene of battles in the [[Nanboku-cho|Nanboku-chô period]].
Matsukura later came under the control of the [[Shiina clan]], who made it their central home castle, and vied with the [[Jinbo clan]] for control of the surrounding region; [[Jinbo Nagamoto]] attacked Matsukura in [[1559]] but was repulsed. The castle, commanded at the time by [[Shiina Yasutane]] was seized by [[Uesugi Kenshin]] in [[1575]], along with all of Etchû, but fell to an [[Oda Nobunaga|Oda]] army led by [[Shibata Katsuie]] and [[Sassa Narimasa]] in [[1582]] (see [[Siege of Matsukura]]). The [[Maeda clan]] took control of the castle shortly afterwards, and at some point in the late 1590s, it was dismantled.
==References==
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Dismantled: 1590s''
*''Japanese'': 松倉城 ''(Matsukura-jou)''
Matsukura castle was a fortress located in [[Etchu province|Etchû province]], roughly six km upriver from [[Uozu castle]] along the Kadokawa, and about 430 m above sea level, on Mt. Kakuma. Only a stone marker stands today on the site.
It was originally built towards the end of the [[Kamakura period]], and was the scene of battles in the [[Nanboku-cho|Nanboku-chô period]].
Matsukura later came under the control of the [[Shiina clan]], who made it their central home castle, and vied with the [[Jinbo clan]] for control of the surrounding region; [[Jinbo Nagamoto]] attacked Matsukura in [[1559]] but was repulsed. The castle, commanded at the time by [[Shiina Yasutane]] was seized by [[Uesugi Kenshin]] in [[1575]], along with all of Etchû, but fell to an [[Oda Nobunaga|Oda]] army led by [[Shibata Katsuie]] and [[Sassa Narimasa]] in [[1582]] (see [[Siege of Matsukura]]). The [[Maeda clan]] took control of the castle shortly afterwards, and at some point in the late 1590s, it was dismantled.
==References==
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]