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*''Japanese'': 鞆城 ''(Tomo-jô)''
*''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]].
Tomo castle was the center of authority for a sub-fief within [[Fukuyama 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 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]].
After Fukushima Masanori was replaced by [[Mizuno Katsunari]] as lord of Fukuyama in 1619, Katsunari named his son [[Mizuno Katsutoshi]] to be lord of Tomo. Katsutoshi was to be the last "lord" or castellan of Tomo, being replaced by Hagino Shin'emon, who became the first of a long line of ''Tomo bugyô'' (Tomo Magistrates), who occupied the mansion (''yashiki'', formerly known as the "castle," or ''oshiro'') and oversaw the administration of the port-town from that time forward.
The former site of the castle is today home to the Fukuyama City Tomonoura History Museum.
The former site of the castle is today home to the Fukuyama City Tomonoura History Museum.
==References==
==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.
*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), 252-253.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]