Fukuyama Castle[Castle Special Topic Japanese History]

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Fukuyama Castle
A Fukuyama Castle built in the end of the Sengoku period by Mizuno Katsushige, a hereditary daimyo (Japanese feudal lord) of Tokugawa family, at 10 koku (180,000 koku).

[Description]
After the Battle of Sekigahara, the Bingo Fukuyama Castle was established after the Battle of Sekigahara, and after that, it was built in the period when the Tokugawa rule became a stone through the’ Osaka camp’, and in the 8th year Genna era (1622), Mizuno Katsushige, a fudai daimyo (a daimyo in hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa shogunate), entered the castle as the lord of Fukuyama Domain with 10 koku, and at the same time, he began to build the castle in

Fukuyama Castle is said to have been a very gorgeous structure as a mountain layer of the castle wall, and as the whole nation has been subdued, it was sealed by the Mizuno family as a control against the domains of Saigoku, and after that, Fukuyama Castle was replaced by Abe family from the Mizuno family, and the lord of the castle, instead of the Abe family, came to the Meiji Restoration.

At the end of the Edo period, Fukuyama Castle, a fudai daimyo (a daimyo of hereditary vassal to the Tokugawa shogunate), had been attacked by the Choshu army, and a portion of the castle disappeared, and the 2 existing turrets and gates were designated national important cultural properties (Fushimiyagura and Sujiteki-gokado), and at present, it was designated as a national historic site (Fushimiyagura, Sujiteki-gokado), and it was also selected as a national historic site, and many tourists visited the castle in the seventy first place of the 100 castles.