江戸時代を通じて最大の藩、加賀藩！石垣の魅力もたっぷりな金沢城をいく！Trip to Kanazawa Castle.

江戸時代を通じて最大の藩、加賀藩！石垣の魅力もたっぷりな金沢城をいく！Trip to Kanazawa Castle.

金沢城（かなざわじょう）は、加賀国石川郡尾山（現・石川県金沢市丸の内）にある日本の城。江戸時代には加賀藩主前田氏の居城だった。城址は国の史跡に指定されており城址を含む一帯は金沢城公園（かなざわじょうこうえん）として整備されている。

金沢平野のほぼ中央を流れる犀川と浅野川とに挟まれた小立野台地の先端に築かれた、戦国時代から江戸時代にかけての梯郭式の平山城である（かつて「尾山」と呼ばれたのもこの地形にちなむ。台地先端を山の尾とみなした）。櫓門や土塀に見られる、白漆喰の壁にせん瓦を施した海鼠（なまこ）壁と屋根に白い鉛瓦が葺かれた外観、櫓1重目や塀に付けられた唐破風や入母屋破風の出窓は、金沢城の建築の特徴である。
この地は加賀一向一揆の拠点で浄土真宗の寺院である「尾山御坊（おやまごぼう、または御山御坊）」であった。寺とはいうものの大坂の石山本願寺（大坂御坊）と同じく石垣を廻らした城ともよべる要塞でもあった。織田信長が一揆を攻め落とし、跡地に金沢城を築いて佐久間盛政を置いた。後に盛政が賤ヶ岳の戦いで羽柴秀吉により討たれ、秀吉は金沢城を前田利家に与えた。利家は文禄元年（1592年）から改修工事を始め、曲輪や堀の拡張、5重6階の天守や櫓を建て並べた。兼六園は、加賀藩四代藩主前田綱紀が金沢城に付属してつくらせた蓮池庭を前身とし、代々の藩主が改修した大名庭園である。
なお、金沢の地名は室町時代の文明年間には既に存在していたことが知られているが、尾山御坊時代は金沢の小立野台地の先端すなわち山尾（尾山）にあったことから尾山の呼称が使われていた。佐久間盛政が新城を築いた時に一向一揆の印象が強い尾山ではなく金沢を城名に用いたが、前田利家が入城すると羽柴秀吉（豊臣政権）に敵対して滅ぼされた盛政命名の金沢城ではなく自身の出身地の尾張国にも通じる尾山を採用した。だが、金沢の地名が広く知られていたために尾山城の名前は普及せず（豊臣政権の公文書でもほとんど用いられていない）、利家自身も再び金沢の城名を用い始めたと推測されている。
城址は明治以降、存城とされて軍施設が置かれたため建物の一部を残して撤去され、第二次世界大戦後には金沢大学が平成7年（1995年）まで置かれていた。

Kanazawa Castle is a Japanese castle located in Oyama, Ishikawa County, Kaga Province (now Marunouchi, Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture). During the Edo period, it was the residence of the Maeda clan, lords of the Kaga domain. The castle ruins have been designated a national historic site, and the area including the castle ruins has been developed as Kanazawa Castle Park.

It is a flatland castle built in a terraced style from the Sengoku period to the Edo period, built at the tip of the Kodatsuno Plateau, sandwiched between the Sai River and the Asano River, which flow almost in the center of the Kanazawa Plain (the castle was once called “Oyama” because of this topography, as the tip of the plateau was considered the tail of the mountain). The exterior of the castle, with its white plaster walls covered with sea cucumber tiles and white lead tiles on the roof, as seen in the turret gate and earthen walls, and the karahafu and irimoyahafu bay windows on the first floor of the turret and on the walls, are characteristic of Kanazawa Castle’s architecture.
This place was the base of the Kaga Ikko Ikki and the Jodo Shinshu temple “Oyama Gobo (or Miyama Gobo)”. Although it was a temple, it was also a fortress surrounded by stone walls, which could be called a castle, just like Ishiyama Honganji (Osaka Gobo) in Osaka. Oda Nobunaga defeated the rebels and built Kanazawa Castle on the site, placing Sakuma Morimasa there. Morimasa was later defeated by Hashiba Hideyoshi in the Battle of Shizugatake, and Hideyoshi gave Kanazawa Castle to Maeda Toshiie. Toshiie began renovation work in 1592, expanding the enclosures and moats, and building a five-tiered, six-story castle tower and turrets. Kenrokuen Garden was originally a lotus pond garden built by the fourth lord of the Kaga domain, Maeda Tsunanori, as an annex to Kanazawa Castle, and was a feudal lord garden that was renovated by successive domain lords. It is known that the place name Kanazawa already existed during the Bunmei era of the Muromachi period, but during the Oyama Gobo period, it was called Oyama because it was located at the tip of the Kodatsuno Plateau in Kanazawa, that is, Yamao (Oyama). When Sakuma Morimasa built a new castle, he used Kanazawa as the name instead of Oyama, which has a strong image of the Ikko Ikki uprising, but when Maeda Toshiie entered the castle, he adopted Oyama, which is related to his hometown of Owari Province, instead of Kanazawa Castle, named by Morimasa, which was destroyed while opposing Hashiba Hideyoshi (the Toyotomi government). However, since the place name Kanazawa was widely known, the name Oyama Castle did not become popular (it was hardly used in official documents of the Toyotomi government), and it is speculated that Toshiie himself began to use the name Kanazawa Castle again.
After the Meiji period, the castle site was demolished except for some of the buildings because it was considered a preserved castle and military facilities were placed there, and after World War II, Kanazawa University was located there until 1995.

가나자와성(가나자와조)은, 가가국 이시카와군 오야마(현·이시카와현 가나자와시 마루노우치)에 있는 일본의 성.에도 시대에는 가가번주 마에다씨의 거성이었다. 오리 성지를 포함한 일대는 가나자와성 공원(가나자와 조코엔)으로 정비되어 있다.

가나자와 평야의 거의 중앙을 흐르는 犀川와 아사노가와 사이에 끼인 오타치노 대지의 첨단에 세워진, 전국 시대부터 에도 시대에 이르는 사카이식의 히라야마성이다(한때 「오야마」라고 불린 것도 이 지형에 연관된다. 꼬리로 본다) 櫓門이나 흙담에서 볼 수 있는, 백석장의 벽에 센 타일을 베푼 해상 벽과 지붕에 흰 납사가 빠진 외관, 망치 1중목이나 담에 붙여졌다 당파풍과 입모점 파풍의 출창은 가나자와성 건축의 특징이다.
이 땅은 카가 일향일규의 거점에서 정토진종의 사원인 「오야마 고보(오야마고보, 또는 미야마 고보)」였다. 사카고보)와 마찬가지로 이시가키를 돌린 성이라고도 하는 요새이기도 했다. 가다케의 싸움에서 하시바 히데요시에 의해 토벌되었고, 히데요시는 가나자와성을 마에다 토시야에게 주었다. 의 천수와 망을 세워 늘어놓았다. 겐로쿠엔은, 가가번 4대 번주 마에다 츠나키가 가나자와성에 부속해 만들어진 연못정을 전신으로 해, 대대로의 번주가 개수한 다이묘 정원이다.
또한, 가나자와의 지명은 무로마치 시대의 문명 연간에는 이미 존재하고 있던 것으로 알려져 있지만, 오야마 고보 시대는 가나자와의 오타치노 대지의 첨단 즉 야마오(오야마)에 그러므로 오야마의 호칭이 사용되고 있었다. 와 하 시바 히데요시(도요토미 정권)에 적대해 멸망된 모리 마사명명의 가나자와성이 아니라 자신의 출신지인 오와리국에도 통하는 오야마를 채용했지만, 가나자와의 지명이 널리 알려 되어 있었기 때문에 오야마성의 이름은 보급되지 않고(토요토미 정권의 공문서에서도 거의 사용되고 있지 않다), 이가 자신도 다시 가나자와의 성명을 사용하기 시작했다고 추측되고 있다.