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*''Built: c. [[1600]]-[[1619]]''
*''Location: [[Tomonoura]], [[Hiroshima han]], [[Aki province]]''
*''Japanese'': 鞆城 ''(Tomo-jô)''
Tomo castle was the center of authority for a sub-fief within [[Hiroshima han]], located in the port town of [[Tomonoura]].
The castle was erected in the 1600s-1610s under [[Fukushima Masanori]], who granted it and an associated 8,131 ''[[koku]]'' fief to his retainer [[Ozaki Genba|Ôzaki Genba]], who then ruled that territory with some 342 retainers of his own under him. The castle originally boasted a three-story tower keep (''tenshu''), a sizable main gate (''Ôtemon''), and ''yagura''. The keep was torn down in [[1619]] in accordance with the "one castle per domain" policy imposed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], but the gate and ''yagura'' mansion (''yashiki'') survived the first century of the [[Edo period]], up until they were lost in a fire in [[1711]].
The former site of the castle is today home to the Fukuyama City Tomonoura History Museum.
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==References==
*Aono Shunsui 青野春水, "Edo jidai Tomo-chô no seiritsu to kôzô" 江戸時代鞆町の成立と構造, ''Tomo no tsu Nakamura-ke monjo mokuroku IV'' 鞆の津中村家文書目録 IV (2009), 252.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
*''Location: [[Tomonoura]], [[Hiroshima han]], [[Aki province]]''
*''Japanese'': 鞆城 ''(Tomo-jô)''
Tomo castle was the center of authority for a sub-fief within [[Hiroshima han]], located in the port town of [[Tomonoura]].
The castle was erected in the 1600s-1610s under [[Fukushima Masanori]], who granted it and an associated 8,131 ''[[koku]]'' fief to his retainer [[Ozaki Genba|Ôzaki Genba]], who then ruled that territory with some 342 retainers of his own under him. The castle originally boasted a three-story tower keep (''tenshu''), a sizable main gate (''Ôtemon''), and ''yagura''. The keep was torn down in [[1619]] in accordance with the "one castle per domain" policy imposed by the [[Tokugawa shogunate]], but the gate and ''yagura'' mansion (''yashiki'') survived the first century of the [[Edo period]], up until they were lost in a fire in [[1711]].
The former site of the castle is today home to the Fukuyama City Tomonoura History Museum.
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==References==
*Aono Shunsui 青野春水, "Edo jidai Tomo-chô no seiritsu to kôzô" 江戸時代鞆町の成立と構造, ''Tomo no tsu Nakamura-ke monjo mokuroku IV'' 鞆の津中村家文書目録 IV (2009), 252.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]