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Tokugawa Ieyasu
徳川家康
1543–1616
The first shogun of the Tokugawa (Edo) shogunate. He moved to the Kanto region in 1590, made Edo Castle his base, and began the expansion that turned it into a vast castle.
MonadoCC BY-SA 3.0Wikimedia CommonsA water castle in Otsu, Shiga. Records credit Tokugawa Ieyasu with building it in 1601.
Basic information
- Type
- Castle
- Setting
- Water castleuses lakes, rivers or marshes for defenceWikidata
- Period
- Early modern (1570s–1871)Wikidata
- Keep (tenshu)
- Keep lostthe castle had a keep, but it no longer stands (its stone base may remain)Wikipedia (ja)
- Built by
- Tokugawa IeyasuWikipedia (ja)
- Built
- 1601Wikipedia (ja)
- Main lords
- Honda clan, Toda clanWikipedia (ja)
- Abandoned
- 1870Wikipedia (ja)
- Remains to see
- Stone walls, Turrets or turret bases, GatesWikipedia (ja)
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