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*''Built: [[1585]], [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]''
*''Built: [[1585]], [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]''
*''Type: Flatland ''hirajiro''''
*''Type: Flatland ''hirajiro''
*''Demolished: [[1869]]''
*''Demolished: [[1869]]''
*''Reconstructed: 1989, 1996 (''yagura'')''
*''Reconstructed: 1989, 1996 (''yagura'')''
*''Japanese'': 駿府城 ''(Sunpu-jou)''
*''Japanese'': 駿府城 ''(Sunpu-jou)''
Sunpu-jô was among [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] main bases of operations prior to his establishing himself in [[Edo]]. He also retired to Sunpu after passing the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] to his son, [[Tokugawa Hidetada]].
Sunpu-jô was among [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] main bases of operations prior to his establishing himself in [[Edo]]. He also retired to Sunpu in [[1606]] after passing the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] to his son, [[Tokugawa Hidetada]].
In [[1610]], when Ieyasu met with [[Shimazu Iehisa]] and prisoner of war King [[Sho Nei|Shô Nei]] of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] at Sunpu, the castle featured three concentric rings of moats, and a five-story (seven floors) main keep tower (''tenshu'') decorated in gold, silver, tin, and bronze.
In [[1610]], when Ieyasu met with [[Shimazu Iehisa]] and prisoner of war King [[Sho Nei|Shô Nei]] of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] at Sunpu, the castle featured three concentric rings of moats, and a five-story (seven floors) main keep tower (''tenshu'') decorated in gold, silver, tin, and bronze. By this time, Sunpu was a small but respectable [[jokamachi|castle-town]], with some 12,000 residents.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 13.</ref>
Roughly half the castle was destroyed by fire in [[1635]]. As the territory was directly controlled by the shogunate, there was no castellan, and the ''tenshu'' was not rebuilt. Today, the ''ninomaru'' area has been made a public park. One ''yagura'' (tower) and the East Gate have been reconstructed.
Roughly half the castle was destroyed by fire in [[1635]]. As the territory was directly controlled by the shogunate, there was no castellan, and the ''tenshu'' was not rebuilt. Today, the ''ninomaru'' area has been made a public park. One ''yagura'' (tower) and the East Gate have been reconstructed.