Tahara Castle
| Tahara Castle 田原城 |
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| Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, Japan | |
Reconstructed Sakura-mon and original moats of Tahara Castle
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| Coordinates | 34°40′24.58″N 137°16′11.02″E / 34.6734944°N 137.2697278°ECoordinates: 34°40′24.58″N 137°16′11.02″E / 34.6734944°N 137.2697278°E |
| Type | flatland-style Japanese castle |
| Site information | |
| Owner | reconstructed 1990 |
| Open to the public |
yes |
| Site history | |
| Built | 1480 |
| Built by | Toda Munemitsu |
| In use | Edo period |
| Demolished | 1872 |
Tahara Castle (田原城 Tahara-jō?) is a Japanese castle located in Tahara, southern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tahara Castle was home to the Miyake clan, daimyō of the 12,000 koku Tahara Domain.
In 1480, Toda Munemitsu (1439–1508), virtually independent warlord of the Atsumi Peninsula during the Sengoku Period, erected the predecessor of Tahara Castle on a site facing Mikawa Bay. Threatened by the growing power of the Matsudaira clan to the north, the Toda pledged loyalty to the Imagawa clan, but later came under the rule of the Tokugawa clan. Following the Battle of Odawara in 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi assigned the Kantō region to Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Toda were dispossessed of their holdings, which were given to Hideyoshi's vassal, Igi Tadatsugu, who rebuilt the moats and stonework.
Following the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Toda Katatsugu was raised back from hatamoto status to a 10,000 koku daimyō, and allowed to return to Tahara Castle, which was now the center of the newly created Tahara feudal domain in 1601. In 1664, his son Toda Tadamasa was transferred to Amakusa Domain in Bungo Province with an increase in revenues to 21,000 koku and Tahara Domain was reassigned to the Miyake clan, who remained in residence until the Meiji Restoration.
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