A renowned castle site from the Warring States period in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture. Built by Sanada Masayuki in 1583, it is celebrated as an 'impregnable fortress' that repelled two Tokugawa assaults — the First and Second Battles of Ueda. In the first battle, 1,200 troops routed 7,000 Tokugawa soldiers, a remarkable achievement. The surviving East Tiger Gate turret and south and north corner t…
Ueda Castle was constructed in 1583 by Sanada Masayuki on a strategic site overlooking the Anegafuchi, a tributary of the Chikuma River, surrounded by wetlands and waterways that made it exceptionally difficult to assault. In the First Battle of Ueda (1585), Masayuki's force of approximately 1,200 d…
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