Kameyama Castle

Kameyama Castle is a Japanese citadel positioned in Kameyama, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the quit of the Edo period, Kameyama Castle was home to the Ishikawa extended family, daimyo of Ise-Kameyama Domain. The citadel became additionally called Kocho-jo The authentic Kameyama Castle was founded by using Seki Sanetada in 1264 to the west of the present Kameyama Castle, and turned into one of the five fortifications guarding the extended family domain names in northern Ise Province.

It came underneath occasional assault by means of the Oda extended family to the north, and became overrun while Oda Nobunaga prolonged his authority over Ise Province. When Seki Kazumasa turned into relocated to Shirakawa in 1590, Okamoto Munenori, a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi become given manipulate of the citadel. Okamoto moved the citadel to the southeast and reconstructed all the primary structures. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, the fortress became the headquarters of Ise-Kameyama Domain, and the encompassing castle town prospered as a post station at the Tokaido motorway connecting Edo with Kyoto.