Fushimi castle

Fushimi castle, as reconstructed in the 20th century.

• Type: Flatland-Mountain
• Founder: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
• Year: 1596
• Destroyed: 1619
• Reconstructed: 1964 (Mogi-tenshu)
• Location: Fushimi, Kyoto
• Other Names: 桃山城 (Momoyama-jou)
• Japanese:伏見城(Fushimi-jou)

Fushimi castle is the name of two castles built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Fushimi, in southeastern Kyoto.

Hideyoshi began construction on the first Fushimi castle in 1592, to serve as his retirement palace, but expanded it in 1594 in order to formally receive envoys from Ming Dynasty China. For that purpose, it is said that he mobilized 250,000 men, and dismantled the nearby Yodo castle, to use its stone in the construction of Fushimi castle's walls.

In 1596, he received a vice-envoy from Ming, but just before the chief envoy arrived, there was a great earthquake, and the castle was destroyed.

References

• Fushimi-jô. Sekai daihyakka jiten 世界大百科事典. Hitachi Solutions, 2012.
• Inoue Munekazu. Nihon no Meijo 日本の名城. Yuzankaku Publishing, 1992.