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Kawagoe City, where Kawagoe Castle is located, is in the center of Saitama Prefecture. In the Edo period, the castle town of Kawagoe Castle was called "Shō-Edo" (prospering like small Edo, capital city at that time) and has a prosperous town. There are temples and shrines that existed before the Edo era, and townscapes where can taste the atmosphere of the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras.
Profile : Kawagoe Castle Ruins
| Location | Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture |
| Also known as | Hatsukari Castle（simply means "wild geese flying first to the Castle） |
| Type of castle | Flatland |
| Mountain's name | ー |
| Elevation | ー |
| Condition | Ruins Original Honmaru Palace |
| Designation | Saitama Cultural Properties |
| Year built | 1457 |
| Abolished | 1869 |
| Castle lord | Ōta Dōkan |
| Refurbishment lord | Matsudaira Nobutsuna |
The family crest was originally created from the pattern that the emperor and the royal family put on the kimono, and the pattern was made into a fixed pattern, and the one attached to his own oxcart is said to be the beginning of the family crest. The warlords drew large crests on the flag-fingers, used to distinguish enemy views on the battlefield, and used by the generals to determine which warlords were active and how much.
Kawagoe Castle admission
admission fee : 100yen (Adult) 50yen(under college school students)
admission time : am9-pm5
closing period : December 28 -January 4 every Monday, day after holiday and fourth Friday reference official site
Kawagoe Castle Google Map
Kawagoe Castle Images
One of three moats that combine to block the path of the enemy, 18m in width and 7m in depth, has been restored with the gradient that was built at the time in 2009
It is a Buddhist temple located in Kawagoe and the "Senba Tōshōgū Shrine" is there. Speaking of Tōshōgū, You know the shrine of Tokugawa Ieyasu, "Nikko Tōshōgū" in Nikkō City, Tochigi Prefecture and "Kunōzan Tōshōgū" in Shizuoka City, where the body of Ieyasu was initially buried. Including Senba, That famous Shrines are called "Three Great Tōshōgū Shrines of Japan".
He was deeply involved in politics as Tougawa Ieyasu's aide, became the priest of Kitain. One year after Ieyasu's death, when the ashes are transferred from Kunōzan to Nikkō, they are said to have been stayed at Kitain for four days and memorialized.
A fierce battleground of "Kawagoe Night Battle" is a battle over Kawagoe Castle that took place in the Muromachi period. Former Castle lord Uesugi clan, siege Kawagoe Castle with Allied forces to retake there . The Allies are about 80,000 forces. In comparison, there are about only 3,000 Hojō clan troops in the besieged Kawagoe Castle, which had been in the castle for about six months. Approximately 8,000 reinforcements arrived at the Hojo Army, Riding in the dark night, surprised the Uesugi Allies and won brilliantly.
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