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*''Destroyed: [[1477]]''
*''Japanese'': 石神井城 ''(Shakujii-jou)''
Shakujii castle was a major power base of the [[Toshima clan]] in the south of [[Musashi province]], from the [[Kamakura period]] through the beginning of the [[Sengoku period]]. Though the location, inside what is today Shakujii Park, in Tokyo's Nerima-ku, is known, little of the castle survives to be seen today.
It is not clear when the castle was first built, however, the Toshima clan held power over this region from the end of the [[Heian period]] until the 1470s. The castle, defended primarily by earthworks, and not the distinctive stone foundations of [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]] castles, lay a short distance from [[Sanboji pond|Sanbôji pond]]. Earthworks and dry moats defended it on three sides, while a natural cliff served to protect it from attack in the direction of the pond.
An alliance in [[1476]] between [[Toshima Yasutune]], lord of the castle at the time, and [[Nagao Kageharu]] led to the castle's destruction the following year at the hands of [[Ota Dokan|Ôta Dôkan]], a retainer of the [[Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan]], enemies of the [[Nagao clan]].
==References==
*Explanatory signs on site.
*"[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ju8t-hnm/Shiro/Kantou/Tokyo/Shakujii/index.htm Shakujii-jô]." ''Uzumoreta kojô: Kantô chihô no shiro''. Accessed 17 December 2009.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Japanese'': 石神井城 ''(Shakujii-jou)''
Shakujii castle was a major power base of the [[Toshima clan]] in the south of [[Musashi province]], from the [[Kamakura period]] through the beginning of the [[Sengoku period]]. Though the location, inside what is today Shakujii Park, in Tokyo's Nerima-ku, is known, little of the castle survives to be seen today.
It is not clear when the castle was first built, however, the Toshima clan held power over this region from the end of the [[Heian period]] until the 1470s. The castle, defended primarily by earthworks, and not the distinctive stone foundations of [[Azuchi-Momoyama period]] castles, lay a short distance from [[Sanboji pond|Sanbôji pond]]. Earthworks and dry moats defended it on three sides, while a natural cliff served to protect it from attack in the direction of the pond.
An alliance in [[1476]] between [[Toshima Yasutune]], lord of the castle at the time, and [[Nagao Kageharu]] led to the castle's destruction the following year at the hands of [[Ota Dokan|Ôta Dôkan]], a retainer of the [[Ogigayatsu Uesugi clan]], enemies of the [[Nagao clan]].
==References==
*Explanatory signs on site.
*"[http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ju8t-hnm/Shiro/Kantou/Tokyo/Shakujii/index.htm Shakujii-jô]." ''Uzumoreta kojô: Kantô chihô no shiro''. Accessed 17 December 2009.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]