Katsuyama Castle

Katsuyama Castle changed into a Japanese citadel placed inside the town of Katsuyama Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Built within the Sengoku length through the Shibata extended family, it became occupied by means of a succession of daimyo of Echizen-Katsuyama Domain underneath the Edo duration Tokugawa shogunate. Per the Shincho koki, Katsuyama Castle became constructed in 1579 by Shibata Katsuyasu, a relative of Shibata Katsuie, one of Oda Nobunaga's main generals, and Hara Nagayori changed into assigned as its castellan.

The Shibata clan had been destroyed in conflicts with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and after the Battle of Sekigahara, the whole province of Echizen changed into assigned by using Tokugawa Ieyasu to his 2nd son, Yuki Hideyasu in 1601 as Fukui Domain. In 1624, Fukui Domain become divided, with Yaki Hideyasu's fifth son, Matsudaira Naomoto being provided a 30,000 koku fief targeted at Katsuyama. This have become Echizen-Katsuyama Domain.

Matsudaira Naomoto turned into transferred to no Domain in 1635, and became replaced by way of his younger brother, Matsudaira Naoyoshi, who become in turn transferred to Ono Domain in 1644, at which factor the domain became a part of the tenryo territories underneath direct manipulate of the shogunate. The contemporary Katsuyama city corridor now stands on the web site of the inner bailey of the fort, with some remnants of the moat and ramparts final, at the side of the base of the donjon.