Aizuwakamatsu Castle

Aizuwakamatsu Castle a concrete duplicate of a traditional Japanese castle in northern Japan, at the center of the town of Aizuwakamatsu, in Fukushima Prefecture. The fort became constructed through Ashina Naomori in 1384, and have become on the start named Kurokawa Castle. It changed into the army and place of job of the Aizu area until 1868. It have become dominated with the useful resource of Ashina Moriuji till 1561, whilst he grew to become his area over to his son. Date Masamune, the finest warlord of the Tohoku place, had struggled in opposition to the Ashina prolonged family for years, and in the end captured the castle in 1589 on the Siege of Kurokawa Castle.

But fast he submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and gave it up in 1590. The true tenshu of Aizuwakamatsu Castle 1868In 1592 a cutting-edge lord, Gamo Ujisato, redesigned the fort and gave it the call Tsuruga Castle, irrespective of the truth that the populace additionally said it as Aizu Castle or Wakamatsu Castle. During the Edo duration, it was the seat of the daimyo of the Aizu Han. The founder modified into Hoshina Masayuki, the son of shagun Tokugawa Hidetada and the grandson of Ieyasu. He and his successors bore the Matsudaira call. The fort turned into an crucial Tokugawa stronghold in the Tohoku place of Honshu.