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Japanese Castles & Swords

The sword culture of castle towns and the stories of blades hidden within Japan's great fortresses

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Japanese Castles & Swords | TOUKENZA

Explore 312 historic castles across Japan — from Tohoku to Kyushu — organized by region. Each profile details the lord, era, and sword heritage: Sendai (Date Masamune), Aizu-Wakamatsu (Gamo Ujisato), Inuyama and more.

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Hatano clanSengoku period

Hitoyoshi Castle

Sagara clanEstablished in the early Kamakura period when the Sagara clan entered the domain

Nagurumi Castle

Sanada MasayukiBuilt 1579 (Tensho 7), abandoned 1590 (Tensho 18)

Itagaki Nobukata

Kusunoki Masasue

Nabeshima Naoshige

Asakura Yoshikage

Wakisaka Yasuharu

Himetsuru Ichimonji

Dōtanuki Masakuni

Kenuki-gata Tachi

Ichigo Hitofuri

65 castles

亀山城（伊勢亀山城）

Mie Prefecture Designated Historic Site (Former Kameyama Castle Tamon Yagura)

Kameyama Castle (Ise Kameyama)

Lord: Seki clan, Okamoto Yoshikatsu, Honda Toshitsugu and other successive lords of the Kameyama domain

## Strategic Point on the Tōkaidō Kameyama Castle is an earl...

津城

Mie Prefecture-designated Historic Site

Tsu Castle

Lord: Tōdō Takatora

## About Tsu Castle Tsu Castle is a castle located in Tsu, t...

三田城

No designated historic site (the castle ruins are school grounds)

Sanda Castle

Lord: Arima clan; Araki clan; Yamazaki clan; Arima Noriyori; Matsudaira Shigenao; Kuki clan (approximately 240 years in the Edo period)

## Overview and Location Sanda Castle was a castle in Setts...

有岡城（伊丹城）

National Historic Site (designated December 1979, with an additional designation in May 1988)

Arioka Castle (Itami Castle)

Lord: Itami clan (later Araki Murashige)

## Overview Arioka Castle stood in present-day Itami, Hyogo ...

芥川山城

National Historic Site (Akutagawa Castle Ruins); Continued 100 Famous Castles of Japan (No. 159)

Akutagawasan Castle

Lord: Hosokawa Takakuni, Miyoshi Nagayoshi, Miyoshi Yoshioki, Wada Koremasa

## Overview and Location **Akutagawasan Castle** (Akutagawa...

洲本城

National Historic Site

Sumoto Castle

Lord: Atagi Fuyuyasu / Wakisaka Yasuharu

## Mountain Castle on Mount Mikuma Sumoto Castle is a mounta...

置塩城

Part of the National Historic Site "Akamatsu Clan Castle Sites" (added designation January 30, 1998)

Okishio Castle

Lord: The Akamatsu clan (Masanori, Yoshimura, Harumasa, Yoshisuke, Norifusa)

## Overview Okishio Castle was a mountain castle in Yumesaki...

尼崎城

Not a nationally or prefecturally designated cultural property (the current keep is a reconstruction funded by private donation, opened in 2019)

Amagasaki Castle

Lord: Toda Ujikane (later the Aoyama clan, then the Sakurai-Matsudaira clan)

## Overview Amagasaki Castle is an early-modern flatland cas...

大阪城

Special Historic Site

Osaka Castle

Lord: Toyotomi Hideyoshi

## About the Castle Osaka Castle is a colossal, unprecedente...

上月城

Kozuki Castle

Lord: Kozuki Kagemori (founder); Akamatsu Masanori; Amago Katsuhisa and Yamanaka Shikanosuke

## Overview Kozuki Castle is a renkaku-style mountain castle...

信貴山城

Nara Prefecture Designated Historic Site

Shigisan Castle

Lord: Matsunaga Hisahide

## The Castle and Its Lord Shigisan Castle is a mountain cas...

新宮城（丹鶴城）

National Historic Site "Shingu Castle Ruins and the Mizuno Family Cemetery" (designated August 27, 2003); Continuation of Japan's Top 100 Castles (No. 167)

Shingu Castle (Tankaku-jō)

Lord: Asano Tadayoshi (founder); Mizuno Shigenaka and 10 generations of the Mizuno clan thereafter

## Founding Shingu Castle was first begun in 1601 (Keicho 6)...