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[Castle Name]
Kowase Castle
The sub-castle of Mimura Motochika during Sengoku Era and controlled by Mr. Itakura during Edo Era.

[Introduction of Kowase Castle]
Kowase Castle is a flatland castle located in North District, Okayama City, Okayama Province.It is said that the castle was built by [Mimura Motochika] in order to prepare for the invasion from [Ukita Naoie] during Sengoku Era.

Tensho 10 year (1582), when Hashiba Hideyoshi’s Takamatsu Castle attacked, it became one of the seven border defense of Mori Terumoto, the castle owner [Inoue Arikage] led 800 soldiers to defend. Kikkawa Motoharu, Kobayakawa Takakage decided to withdraw due to Kowase Castle was isolated, but Arikage against the order and kept fighting with Hideyoshi army.

As a result, Owase Castle fell down and [Ukita Naoie] became the owner, he was absent from the castle for a while. In Keicho 6 year, Ukita Naoie’s vassal [Togawa Michiyasu] entered the castle and established clan. Castle was abandoned and a clan office was set up in Ninomaru, and carried out as Kowase Jinya.

Then Jinya street formed around Jinya and its surroundings. In Enpo 7 year (1679), the fourth leader of the domain [Togawa Yasukaze] died only at the age of 9, after that Mr. Togawa became discontinued and was replaced by someone else. After that for 20 years, it was ruled by Tenryo.

Genroku 12 year (1699), [Itakura Shigetaka] received 20000 stones and dominated Mr. Itakura until the end of Tokugawa Shogun. Nowadays, Sugayama Shrine is built on Kowase Jinya ruins, and some stones and moats are still left.

[Kowase Castle (Kowase Jinya)• Address• Access]
〒701-0153 829-5 Kowase, North District, Okayama City, Okayama Province

[Map of Kowase Castle (Kowase Jinya)]