福島県会津若松市にある日本100名城に選定されている鶴ヶ城に訪れました。
会津若松城や黒川城とも呼ばれているそうです。
紅葉がすこし色づき始めていて初秋の雰囲気を感じることができました。
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日本100名城 No.12
Aizu Wakamatsu Castle is located in the center of the Aizu basin and at crossroads to Kōriyama to the north and Yonezawa to the east and Murakami on the Sea of Japan coast.
During the Nanboku-cho period, the area was ruled by the Ashina clan. Ashina Naomori built Kurokawa Castle (黒川城, Kurokawa-jō) within the Aizu basin in 1384.
This castle was the predecessor of what later became Aizuwakamatsu Castle.
It was ruled by Ashina Moriuji until 1561, when he turned his domain over to his son.
The Ashina clan also built Mukaihaguroyama Castle, a huge mountain castle 10 kilometers south of Aizu Wakamatsu. However, by the Sengoku period, the power of the Ashina clan had weakened.
Date Masamune, the greatest warlord of the Tōhoku area, who had struggled against the Ashina clan for years, and finally captured the castle in 1589 at the Siege of Kurokawa Castle.
However, Masamune was in turn forced to pledge fealty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1590, and were obliged to relocate north to Sendai.
Aizu then came to be ruled by one of Hideyoshi’s generals, Gamō Ujisato. Ujisato was expected to keep a close watch on Date Masamune, and thus rebuilt Kurokawa Castle into a modern castle in 1592, renaming it Tsuruga Castle, although the populace also referred to it as Aizu Castle or Wakamatsu Castle.
He also built an unprecedentedly huge seven-story tenshu in 1593.
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