Sekiyado Castle

Sekiyado Castle is a Japanese castle located in Noda, northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo length, Sekiyado Castle became home to the Kuse clan, daimya of Sekiyado Domain. Sekiyado is placed on the confluence of the Tone River and the Edogawa River, and was as a consequence a strategic region controlling river visitors in the northern Kanto vicinity, as well as the northeastern tactics to Edo. A fortification become built on this place in the early Muromachi length by both Yadoya Mitsusuke 1395-1438 or Yadoya Shigesuke.

It become destroyed during a campaign via the Later Haja clan of Odawara to overcome the Kanta region from 1565-1574. After the Hojo clan was destroyed in the Battle of Odawara, they were supplanted with the aid of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the castle become reconstructed by means of Matsudaira Yasumoto in 1590. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, the path of the Tone River become diverted in 1654 to prevent flooding in Edo.

The new mouth of the Tone River changed into moved from Edo Bay to north of the Basa Peninsula, which substantially hindered river transportation. The daimyo of Sekiyado Domain, Itakura Shigetsune, took gain of this example to assemble a canal joining the Tone River with the Edogawa River at Sekiyado, which greatly shortened the voyage and superior the sales of his area.