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*''Built: [[1576]]''
*''Founder: [[Wakabayashi Nagato]]''
*''Demolished: [[1872]]''
*''Japanese'': 小松城 ''(Komatsu-jou)''
Komatsu castle was a lowlands flatlands castle (''hirajiro'') in [[Kaga province]].
It was built in 1576 by Wakabayashi Nagato, the site having already come to be known as Komatsu after the [[Kaga Ikki]] leader [[Komatsu Michihide]]. Built largely on swamp, roughly 30% of the land area of the castle grounds was comprised of moats or ditches.
[[Niwa Nagashige]] came to control Komatsu in [[1597]]; it was valued at 120,000 ''[[koku]]'' at the time. However, as he sided with [[Ishida Mitsunari]] at the [[battle of Sekigahara]], he soon lost his territory to the [[Maeda clan]].
Komatsu became the retirement home of [[Maeda Toshitsune]], third daimyô of [[Kaga han]], in [[1639]]. Despite the shogunate's "one castle per domain" policy, Komatsu was allowed to be maintained alongside the domain's chief castle at [[Kanazawa castle|Kanazawa]] until [[1872]], when the ''han'' system was abolished and Komatsu, along with a great many castles across the country were demolished.
==References==
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
*''Founder: [[Wakabayashi Nagato]]''
*''Demolished: [[1872]]''
*''Japanese'': 小松城 ''(Komatsu-jou)''
Komatsu castle was a lowlands flatlands castle (''hirajiro'') in [[Kaga province]].
It was built in 1576 by Wakabayashi Nagato, the site having already come to be known as Komatsu after the [[Kaga Ikki]] leader [[Komatsu Michihide]]. Built largely on swamp, roughly 30% of the land area of the castle grounds was comprised of moats or ditches.
[[Niwa Nagashige]] came to control Komatsu in [[1597]]; it was valued at 120,000 ''[[koku]]'' at the time. However, as he sided with [[Ishida Mitsunari]] at the [[battle of Sekigahara]], he soon lost his territory to the [[Maeda clan]].
Komatsu became the retirement home of [[Maeda Toshitsune]], third daimyô of [[Kaga han]], in [[1639]]. Despite the shogunate's "one castle per domain" policy, Komatsu was allowed to be maintained alongside the domain's chief castle at [[Kanazawa castle|Kanazawa]] until [[1872]], when the ''han'' system was abolished and Komatsu, along with a great many castles across the country were demolished.
==References==
*Terada Shôichi (ed.) ''Meijô wo aruku 2: Kanazawa-jô''. Tokyo: PHP Kenkyûsho, 2002.
[[Category:Castles]]
[[Category:Sengoku Period]]
