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[Castle name]
Kakunodate castle
Moriyasu Tozawa expands power After the battle of Sekigahara, Kakunodate Castle was placed under Satake’s rule.

[Explanation]
Kakunoda Castle is a mountain castle site located in Kakunodate, sightseeing attractions of Semboku, Akita prefecture.
It is known that this was Tozawa’s home base in the Warring States Period.

Tozawa moved from the Kodaya castle in Kitaura district to Kakunodate Castle in Ouei 31st year (1424) and endeavored to expand the territory based on this place. Tenshou 11th year (1583), Tozawa, “Tozawa Moriyasu” broke the Ando Chikasue invading Senboku, conversely taking “Yodogawa Castle” and solidified the ground in Kitasen.

Eventually when Kitaura district was supressed, he also won against Yokotei castle “Onodera Yoshimichi” and expanded the territory to kamiura district. Eventually he became a lord who gained 44,300 Jewels. In Tensho 18th year (1590), he was relieved of the territory by auditing Hideyoshi for the first time in Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Odawara conquest.

However, Moriyasu suddenly died before Odawara Castle fell, and he kindly entrusted Hideyoshi his brother ‘Kosei’ his heir ‘Masamori’. Keicho 5 (1600) When the battle of Sekigahara broke out, “Tozawa Masamori” who was sided with the East Army led by Ieyasu gave Shinjo Castle for 60 thousand Jewels.

*View of castle town from Kakunodate Castle Ruins

Meanwhile, in Kakunodate Castle Yoshinobu Satake whose flag was unclear in the same battle was transferred to Kubota castle (Akita castle), and Kakunodate Castle was also under Satake’s rule. Asahina Yoshihiro (Morishige) who became son-in-law of Asahina was appointed. It is said that the current castle town was improved in the time when this Yoshihiro was a castle owner.
Yoshihiro Asahina was defeated by the war between Date Masamune and became the loyal retainer of his older brother Satake Yoshinobu.

After that, Kamonkashi Castle became abandoned along with the “First National Castle Order” of the former Ganwa (1615). When Mr. Asahina name disappeared, the clan’s “Satake Yoshichika” went from “Nagano Murasakijima Castle” to Kakunodate and continued until the Meiji era. Currently, Kakunodate is called small Kyoto in the northeast region and is crowded with many tourists looking at town quarters such as Samurai House.

[Address,access]
Chihaya city, Nagano Prefecture 389-0822 Oji Kamiyamada Shiroyama

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