The castle, located in the city center, was built by Mizuno Katsunari, the first lord of the Fukuyama Domain, who reported its completion to the Tokugawa Shogunate on Aug. 28, 1622. During an Aug.

it would require a more robust presentation of Hikone Castle’s significance within the network of daimyo feudal lords united under the national ruler, the Tokugawa Shogunate. The prefecture ...

Built with magnificent stone walls, Tsuruga Castle is the iconic heart of Aizuwakamatsu. During the civil war of 1868, the Aizu domain supported the ousted shogunate against the forces of the new ...

This castle is a national treasure built by Ishikawa Yasunaga and his father Kazumasa, a feudal retainer who once supported Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun ruler of the Tokugawa shogunate ...

The castle tower is surrounded by citadels ... established the Tokugawa Shogunate there in 1603, after the Battle of Sekigahara. Though Edo grew into a city of over a million in the 1700s ...