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[[Image:Odawara-jo.JPG|right|thumb|Odawara castle]]
[[Image:Odawara-jo.JPG|right|thumb|Odawara castle]]
[[Image:Umadashimon.JPG|right|thumb|Reconstructing Umadashimon gate(2008 May)]]
*''Japanese:'' 小田原城 ''(Odawara-jou)''
*''Type: Flatland-Mountain''
*''Founder: [[Omori Yoriharu]]''
*''Year: 15c''
*''Demolished: [[1871]]''
*''Reconstructed: 1960,1971,1997 (''tenshu'', gates)''
*''Location: [[Sagami province]]''
Odawara was among the most major castles in the [[Kanto|Kantô]] during the [[Sengoku period]], base of the [[Go-Hojo clan|Hôjô clan]] until its famous fall in the [[1590]] [[siege of Odawara]].
In [[1590]], [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] mobilized 150000 troops to Odawara ([[Siege of Odawara]]).
The base of Odawara castle was a mansion of the [[Kobayakawa clan]] in the [[Kamakura period]]. The Kobayakawa were replaced by [[Omori Yoriharu]] in the [[Muromachi period]]. Odawara castle was built by the [[Omori clan|Omori clan]] during this time. In [[1495]], the castle was then taken by [[Hojo Soun|Ise Shinkurô]] (Hôjô Sôun), and the castle was then expanded over five generations of the Hôjô clan. The castle blocked invasions by [[Uesugi Kenshin]] ([[1561]]) and [[Takeda Shingen]] ([[1569]]).
In 1590, [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] mobilized 150,000 troops to Odawara, and besieged the castle for 100 days until [[Hojo Ujinao|Hôjô Ujinao]] finally surrendered.
[[Inaba Masaharu]], son of [[Kasuga no Tsubone]], became lord of Odawara in [[1632]], and had the castle renovated, to become more fully an [[Edo period]]-style castle. The ''[[tenshu]]'' collapsed in earthquakes several times in the Edo period, but was reconstructed each time.
[[Image:Umadashimon.JPG|right|thumb|Reconstructing Umadashimon gate(2008 May)]]
Most of the castle's structures, including the ''tenshu'', were demolished by the government in the [[Meiji period]], and public facilities were built. A zoo and amusement park were built in 1950, and reconstruction of the ''tenshu'' was completed in 1960; other reconstruction efforts are ongoing.
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