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Ueda, Nagano
Ueda Castle
上田城
This is the Sanada clan's castle that twice drove back Tokugawa armies, yet the turrets standing today were built after the Sanada had gone.
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Sanada Masayuki
真田昌幸
A Sengoku-period warlord who built Ueda Castle in 1583 and twice held it against large Tokugawa armies, in 1585 and 1600.
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During the Sekigahara campaign of 1600, Masayuki and his second son Nobushige (better known as Yukimura) held Ueda Castle and stalled an army of 38,000 led by Tokugawa Hidetada. But the Tokugawa side won at Sekigahara, so he had to hand over the castle, and father and son were exiled to Kudoyama in Kii Province.
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- 1上田城の歴史(上田市)Checked:
- 2月夜野地区の指定文化財の紹介(みなかみ町)Checked:
- 3名胡桃城址(みなかみ町観光協会)Checked:
- 4国指定史跡 岩櫃城跡(東吾妻町パンフレット)Checked: