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Karasawayama Castle Ruins and Shrine
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A Continued 100 Fine Castles site that withstood ten attacks by Uesugi Kenshin, with impressive stone walls
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927
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15 min by car from Tobu Tanuma Station
1409 Fuji-machi, Sano, Tochigi
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Shrine
Founded 927
1099 years
Enshrined Deity
藤原秀郷公
Overview
Mountain castle ruins on Karasawayama in northern Sano and Karasawayama Shrine on the main bailey. A famous castle selected for the Continued 100 Fine Castles of Japan, with magnificent stone walls among Kanto's finest medieval mountain castles. Karasawayama Shrine enshrines Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara Toda), offering blessings for competitive fortune. Hidesato was a mid-Heian warrior known for t…
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Origins
Karasawayama Castle is said to have been built in 927 by Fujiwara no Hidesato (Tawara Toda). Hidesato built power as Shimotsuke governor for his merit in suppressing Taira no Masakado's rebellion. Hidesato is known for the centipede extermination legend, passed down as a master archer. In the mediev…
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Uesugi Kenshin
Dragon of Echigo, God of War
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During the Sengoku period, Uesugi Kenshin attacked Karasawayama Castle ten times as part of his campaigns into the Kanto region, yet the castle, defended by the Sano clan, never fell. Amid the ongoing power struggle with the Hojo clan, its resilience even against Kenshin cemented the castle's reputation as an impregnable stronghold.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Taiko, Ruler of All
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Karasawayama Castle withstood ten sieges by Uesugi Kenshin during the Sengoku period, but in 1590 Toyotomi Hideyoshi's conquest of the Kanto region led to the dispossession of the Sano clan, its lords, ending the castle's roughly 650-year history. Hideyoshi's military power, driving Japan's unification, brought down even this formidable stronghold.
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