Oshi Castle

Oshi Castle is a Japanese castle located in Gyoda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, Oshi Castle became the center of the 100,000 koku Oshi Domain, however the fort is far higher regarded for its association with the Siege of Oshi all through the past due Sengoku duration. The citadel changed into additionally referred to as "Kama-jo or Oshi-no-uki-jo the Floating Castle of Oshi. It changed into seemed as one of the seven primary strongholds of the Kanto area.

Oshi Castle become completed through Narita Akiyasu round 1479. The Narita own family dominated over the area of Gyoda for first of all as vassals to the Ogigayatsu Uesugi extended family, converting their allegiance to Odawara Hojo clan in 1546. The castle town was burned down with the aid of Uesugi Kenshin in 1574. The fort made use of marshes and swamplands in its surroundings and was taken into consideration impregnable. In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi dispatched Ishida Mitsunari with an navy of 23,000 troops to capture the citadel.