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− | *''Japanese:''駿府城''(Sunpu-jou)'' | + | *''Built: [[1585]], [[Tokugawa Ieyasu]]'' |
− | *''Type:Flatland'' | + | *''Type: Flatland ''hirajiro'' |
− | *''Founder:Tokugawa Ieyasu'' | + | *''Demolished: [[1869]]'' |
− | *''Year:[[1585]]'' | + | *''Reconstructed: 1989, 1996 (''yagura'')'' |
− | *''Demolished:[[1869]]'' | + | *''Location: [[Shizuoka]], [[Suruga province]]'' |
− | *''Reconstructed:1989,1996(Yagura)''
| + | *''Japanese'': 駿府城 ''(Sunpu-jou)'' |
− | *''Location:[[Suruga province]]''
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| + | Sunpu-jô was among [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] main bases of operations prior to his establishing himself in [[Edo]]. He also retired to Sunpu in [[1606]] after passing the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]] to his son, [[Tokugawa Hidetada]]. |
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| + | In [[1610]], when Ieyasu met with [[Shimazu Iehisa]] and prisoner of war King [[Sho Nei|Shô Nei]] of [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]] at Sunpu, the castle featured three concentric rings of moats, and a five-story (seven floors) main keep tower (''tenshu'') decorated in gold, silver, tin, and bronze. By this time, Sunpu was a small but respectable [[jokamachi|castle-town]], with some 12,000 residents.<ref>Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 13.</ref> |
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| + | Roughly half the castle was destroyed by fire in [[1635]]. As the territory was directly controlled by the shogunate, there was no castellan, and the ''tenshu'' was not rebuilt. Today, the ''ninomaru'' area has been made a public park. One ''yagura'' (tower) and the East Gate have been reconstructed. |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
| *[[Nihon no Meijo]] | | *[[Nihon no Meijo]] |
| + | *"Shizuoka wo aruku" 静岡を歩く, ''Momoto'' モモト 14 (April 2013), n.p. |
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| [[Category:Castles]] | | [[Category:Castles]] |
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