【彦根城】Hikone Castle Tenshu Main castle tower 天守
11th, Mach, 2019@Hikone Castle, Shiga, Japan
■Tenshu (Main castle tower)
Hikone Castle is a magnificent 400 year old structure. It stands three stories tall, with an outer wall of stone at its base, and ivory white stucco above, a beautiful harmony that is characteristic of this castle.The castle grounds are encircled by what was once a triple moat, and remains today as a double moat.Hikone Castle is a structure befitting its value of 300,000 koku (an old system of measurement, in which one koku is equivalent to the amount of rice is takes to feed one person for one year).For a period of nearly 260 years from the reign of the castle’s first lord, Naomasa Ii, in 1601, to the 14th lord, Naonori Ii, in 1860, the castle was ruled by one family, during whose reign there were no assaults on the castle, nor any great changes made to the castle structure. In 1951, the castle was designated a historic site, and in 1956 a special historic site and cultural property.
Despite being built in the early part of the modern period, Hikone Castle still retains features such as the defensive earthworks around the main bailey that are typical of mountaintop castles from the Middle Ages.Furthermore, as it was built with the aim of monitoring the power of the Toyotomi faction following the Battle of Sekigahara, in order to build it more quickly, it is said that buildings and stonework were taken from nearby Sawayama Castle, as well as from other older castles in the vicinity, such as Odani Castle, Nagahama Castle and Otsu Castle.
■天守
国宝彦根城天守は北西に附櫓が、さらに長い多聞櫓が連なります。また、破風は変化の妙に富んでいます。天守一層目の軒に並ぶ八つの「へ」の字形の切妻破風は、それぞれの大きさと奥行きに変化をもたせ、二層目は、南北を切妻破風、東西を入母屋破風とし、南北にが唐破風が設けられています。この切妻破風、入母屋破風、唐破風を組み合わせた類い希な美しさは見逃せません。 彦根城の天守は、長方形(梁行に対して桁行が長い)で、表門から登ると目に入る東の面や、琵琶湖側から望む西の面は、そそり立ち端正な佇まいを見せます。逆に南、北の面はどっしりと幅が広く安定した面もちです。また、一層目は、大壁の下に下見板が取り付けられ、窓は突き上げ戸になっています。
Sphere of Influence Season 2 Ep.004 - Battle at Hitoyoshi Castle
KOEI Tecmo's Nobunaga's Ambition: Sphere of Influence available on Steam.
Continuing our expansionism, we need to take Hitoyoshi Castle before the nearest of our main rivals manages to take it, as it is an incredibly important place to get. Castles are much more important than fortresses, so it was a great place to grab.
[Wikipedia] Battle of Anegawa
The Sengoku period Battle of Anegawa (姉川の戦い, Anegawa no Tatakai) (30 July 1570) occurred near Lake Biwa in Ōmi Province, Japan, between the allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, against the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans. It is notable as the first battle that involved the alliance between Nobunaga and Ieyasu, liberated the Oda clan from its unbalanced alliance with the Azai, and saw Nobunaga's prodigious use of firearms. Nobunaga's loyal retainer, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was assigned to lead troops into open battle for the first time.
The battle came as a reaction to Oda Nobunaga's sieges of the castles of Odani and Yokoyama, which belonged to the Azai and Asakura clans. It was also referred to as the Battle of Nomura (野村合戦 Nomura Kassen) by the Oda and Azai clans and the Battle of Mitamura (三田村合戦 Mitamura Kassen) by the Asakura clan.
There is a battlefield memorial marker in Nomura-cho, Nagahama city, in Shiga Prefecture.
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