Kitanosho Castle

Kitanosho Castle (北ノ庄城, Kitanoshō-jō) was a hirashiro (castle located on flatland). Its remains are located in current-day Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. As the castle lasted merely eight years, few records survive about it. It is known, though that it was built by Shibata Katsuie in 1575. Also, it appears that the tenshu (keep) was nine stories high, making it the largest of the time.

The castle was destroyed by fire in 1583, after Katsuie killed his wife, Oichi, and then committed seppuku, following defeat in the Battle of Shizugatake against Toyotomi Hideyoshi. A few stone foundations of the castle were uncovered in archaeological digs and are now open to the public.

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Kitanosho Castle steht weltweit auf Platz 2.592 von 5.479 im Burgen-Bekanntheitsranking des Atlas und Nr. 134 der 297 in Japan verzeichneten. Gegründet 1575, ist es älter als 41% der datierten Objekte des Atlas — eines von 437 Atlas-Objekten, die im 16. Jahrhundert gegründet wurden. Sehen Sie im Burgen-Statistik, wie Japan abschneidet.

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