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[[File:Yodocastle.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A portion of the ruins of Yodo castle]]
[[File:Yodocastle.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A portion of the ruins of Yodo castle]]
*''Type:Flatland''
*''Type:Flatland''
*''Founder:Matsudaira Sadatsuna''
*''Founder:Matsudaira Sadatsuna''
*''Year:[[1623]]''
*''Year: [[1623]]-[[1625]]''
*''Destroyed:[[1868]]''
*''Demolished: [[1868]]''
*''Location:[[Yamashiro province]]''
*''Location: [[Yamashiro province]]''
*''Japanese:''淀城''(Yodo-jou)''
Yodo castle was the chief castle of [[Yodo han]]. It was located at a vital strategic point in what is today [[Fushimi]] Ward, [[Kyoto]] City, where the [[Uji River|Uji]], [[Kizu River|Kizu]], and [[Katsura River]]s merge to become the [[Yodo River]]. A different castle by the same name, located some 500 meters to the north, is associated with [[Yodo-gimi]] (second wife of [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]).
Shogun [[Tokugawa Hidetada]] ordered [[Matsudaira Sadatsuna]] to build a castle on the site in [[1619]] so as to maintain control over this vital location while the nearby [[Fushimi castle]] was demolished. Construction began in [[1623]] and was completed in [[1625]]. The following year, when Hidetada and his son [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]] traveled to Kyoto, they stayed overnight at Yodo castle.
Yodo castle was the chief castle of [[Yodo han]]. It was located in what is today [[Fushimi]] Ward, [[Kyoto]] City.
[[Nagai Naomasa]] was made lord of Yodo in [[1633]], but his line did not hold the castle for long. After several other changes of castellan, [[Inaba Masatomo]] was transferred from [[Sakura han]] to Yodo in [[1723]]/5; the [[Inaba clan]] would remain lords of the 102,000 ''[[koku]]'' domain of Yodo for the remainder of the [[Edo period]].
The castle was encircled by two or three layers of moats. A five-story square-shaped ''tenshu'' (main keep tower) stood on the site until [[1756]], when it was struck by lightning and burned down.
The lord of Yodo played a role in overseeing travel up and down the [[Yodo River]] which connected Fushimi and [[Osaka]]; a special set of piers or stone steps, known as ''tôjin gangi'' and located near the taxation office about 200 meters north of the castle, were set aside for the exclusive use of [[Korean embassies to Edo]], as they boarded or disembarked from riverboats they used to travel up and down the Yodogawa.<ref>Explanatory plaques at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/45652539075/sizes/k/]</ref>
The lord of Yodo played a role in overseeing travel up and down the [[Yodo River]] which connected Fushimi and [[Osaka]]; a special set of piers or stone steps, known as ''tôjin gangi'' and located near the taxation office about 200 meters north of the castle, were set aside for the exclusive use of [[Korean embassies to Edo]], as they boarded or disembarked from riverboats they used to travel up and down the Yodogawa.<ref>Explanatory plaques at the former site of Yodo castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/45652539075/sizes/k/]</ref>
Large waterwheels some eight meters in diameter were located to the north and southwest of the castle.
==References==
==References==
*[[Nihon no Meijo]]
*[[Nihon no Meijo]]
*Plaques on-site at former site of the castle.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/45652536925/sizes/k/]
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