Ueda Castle
After visiting Komoro Castle Park on Saturday, I took the train to Ueda on Sunday to visit its castle.
Ueda Castle was built by Sanada Masayuki in 1583. It is most famous because in 1585 and 1600, Sanada was able to stop two attacks by Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1600, Sanada repelled 38,000 Tokugawa warriors with only 2500 castle defenders. After this battle, the castle was razed and moved to Matsushiro Castle. In 1622, Sengoku Tadamasa started rebuilding Ueda Castle, but his work was not completed.
(If you are interested in Japanese Castles, please check out my Castle Page to see links to posts about the castles I've visited.)
I'll post about the shrine and the rest of the castle park soon.
6 comments:
Hi Pamela wow Japan has so many castle's ,i never realized that they had any at all,i always think of England and Scotland as the only ones having castles,thankyou for your lovely post today xx
So interesting! Really makes me want to check out local castles on my next visit to Japan.
Pamela: What a great place to visit, so many lovely things to see and read.
Thank-you for sharing with us.
Catherine
Another interesting place to visit. Wonderful to see the historic places preserved.
Another great castle! I'll have to ask you for some recommendations for our trip soon :)
I really do love the Japanese architecture. This sounds especially interesting.
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