Okayama Castle

Okayama Castle is a Japanese mansion in the city of Okayama in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. The primary pinnacle was finished in 1597, pulverized in 1945 and recreated in concrete in 1966. Two of the watch towers survived the barraging of 1945 and are right now recorded by the national Agency for Cultural Affairs as Important Cultural Properties. A particular contrast to the white "Egret Castle" of neighboring Himeji, Okayama Castle has a dull outside, obtaining it the designation Crow Castle or "fortification of the dim fowl".

Today, only two or three sections of Okayama Castle's housetop checking the fish-formed figures of peculiarity are plated, anyway before the Battle of Sekigahara the essential keep in like manner included overlaid housetop tiles, picking up it the appellation Golden Crow Castle. Advancement of Okayama Castle was started in 1573 by Ukita Naoie and wrapped up by his tyke Hideie in 1597. Following three years, Hideie concurred with the grievous Toyotomi Clan at the Battle of Sekigahara, was gotten by the Tokugawa Clan and expelled to the island correctional facility of Hachijo. The estate and including fiefdoms were given to Kobayakawa Hideaki as wealth of war. Kobayakawa passed on just two years sometime later without leaving a recipient, and the house and fiefdom was given to the Ikeda Clan, who later included Koraku-en as a private garden.