Sunpu castle

• Built: 1585, Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Type: Flatland hirajiro'
• Demolished: 1869
• Reconstructed: 1989, 1996 (yagura)
• Location: Shizuoka, Suruga province
• Japanese: 駿府城 (Sunpu-jou)

Sunpu-jô was among Tokugawa Ieyasu's main bases of operations prior to his establishing himself in Edo. He also retired to Sunpu after passing the shogunate to his son, Tokugawa Hidetada.

In 1610, when Ieyasu met with Shimazu Iehisa and prisoner of war King Shô Nei of 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.

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.

Link

• Shizuoka city

References

• Nihon no Meijo
• "Shizuoka wo aruku" 静岡を歩く, Momoto モモト 14 (April 2013), n.p.