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{{Castle
|English Name=
|English Name=Yamagata Castle
|Japanese Name=山形城
|Romaji Name=yamagata-jo
|Alternate Names=Kasumiga-jo, Kajo
|Founder=Shiba (Mogami) Kaneyori
|Year Founded=1356
|Castle Type=Flatland
|Castle Condition=No main keep but other buildings
|Designations=Top 100 Castles, National Historic Site
|Historical Period=Edo Period
|Features=gates, turrets, bridges, water moats, trenches, stone walls, walls
|Access=Yamagata Station (Yamagata Shinkansen), walk 15 mins
|Visitor Information=The park is open from 5am-10pm from April to November and from 5:30am in the winter months.  The East Main Gate is only open from April until the Culture Day weekend in November.  Check the website for details about dates and times.
|Time Required=120 mins
|Website=http://www.kankou.yamagata.yamagata.jp/
|City=Yamagata City
|Prefecture=Yamagata Prefecture
|Notes=This castle is much bigger than you might expect and is really one of the best castles to visit in Tohoku.  The East Main Gate was rebuilt in wood many years ago, but recently the Honmaru Masugata Gate has been splendidly rebuilt and they are still excavating around the honmaru with plans for further development.  When you visit this castle, take time to walk around the top of the earthen embankment that encircles the Ninomaru and above the moat.  You can catch many nice views of the moat and see the stone walls of the other three gates and the foundations of 2 more yagura. A couple of the gates are complex with very nice stonework.
|History=The castle originally established by Shiba Kaneyori at Yamagata is said to have been about the size of the honmaru of the later Yamagata castle. Shiba later took the name of the surrounding area and changed his name to Mogami. Mogami's ancestor Mogami Yoshiaki reconstructed the castle into a much larger fortress in 1592. He added the Ninomaru and Sannomaru baileys, but there was never a large main keep that you see at other castles. It did however have three 2 story and one 3 story yagura. While Mogami Yoshiaki went to the Battle of Sekigahara with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kagekatsu's general Naoe Kanetsugu went to attack Yamagata Castle but, supposedly, he could not find it in the thick fog. Thereafter, the castle was also known as <i>kasumigajo</i>, the castle in the haze.


 
At his peak after the battle of Sekigahara, Yoshiaki controlled land yielding 570,000 koku. Yoshiaki died in 1614 and his successor Iechika died shortly thereafter in 1617. His sucessor Yoshitoshi was reduced to 300,000 koku and later reassigned to Mikawa. The importance of Yamagata Castle to the Tokugawa rule over Eastern Japan declined over time, and with it the size of territory controlled by the lord of Yamagata Castle was also reduced.
 
|Year Visited=2003, 2017
 
|AddedJcastle=2003
Yamagata Castle
|Japanese Notes=山形城は意外に広いので時間をかけてゆっくり見て回りたいです。東北のお城としては特に広くてよく整備されているのでお城ファンには必見です。最近は本丸一文字門と隅櫓の櫓台石垣も復元されているのでとても見ごたえのあるお城です。本丸もまだ発掘中だから今後の開発も楽しみです。二の丸の土塁の上を歩く道もあるので、これで一周するのもオススメです。櫓台の他にそれぞれの門の石垣や堀を見ることができてとても面白かったです。
|Japanese Name=
|Visits=September 12, 2003; November 2, 2017
山形城
|GPSLocation=38.2555, 140.32761
|Romaji Name=
|Contributor=Eric
yamagata-jo
|rating_average=2.3
|Alternate Names=
|castleElev=133
Kasumiga-jo
|ekiLatLng=38.24845,140.327473
|Founder=
|ekiElev=139
Shiba (Mogami) Kaneyori
|elevChange=-6
|Year Founded=
|kamon=mogami.jpg
1356
|kamonFam=Mogami
|Castle Type=
|adminRating=2
Flatland
|oldID=31
|Castle Condition=
No main keep but other buildings
|Designations=
National Historic Site, Top 100 Castles
|Historical Period=
Edo Period
|Main Keep Structure=
 
|Year Reconstructed=
1993 (wood)
|Artifacts=
 
 
|Features=
stone walls
|Access=
 
Yamagata Station (Yamagata Shinkansen), 1km walk
 
|Visitor Information=
 
 
|Time Required=
 
|City=
Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture
|Prefecture=
Yamagata Prefecture
|Notes=
 
 
If you enter through the main reconstructed East Gate, make sure you go out the back and visit the reconstruction of the honmaru and leave via the South Gate. This castle was well worth the visit for the beautiful reconstruction of the East Gate and for the ongoing archaeological excavation and reconstruction of the honmaru.
 
 
|History=
 
 
<p>The castle originally established by Shiba Kaneyori at Yamagata is said to have been about the size of the honmaru of the later Yamagata castle. Shiba later took the name of the surrounding area and changed his name to Mogami. Mogami's ancestor Mogami Yoshiaki reconstructed the castle into a much larger fortres in 1592. He added the ninomaru and sannomaru, but there was never a large main keep that you see at other castles. It did however have three 2 story and one 3 story yagura. </p><p> While Mogami Yoshiaki went to the Battle of Sekigahara with Tokugawa Ieyasu, it is said that Uesugi Kagekatsu's general Naoe Kanetsugu went to attack Yamagata Castle but he could find it as it was buried in thick fog. Thereafter, the castle was also known as <i>kasumigajo</i>, the castle in the haze. </p><p>At his peak after the battle of Sekigahara Yoshiaki controlled land yielding 570,000 koku. Yoshiaki died in 1614 and his successor Iechika died shortly thereafter in 1617. His sucessor Yoshitoshi was reduced to 300,000 koku and later moved to Mikawa. Over time the importance of Yamagata Castle to the Tokugawa rule over Eastern Japan declined, and with it the size of territory controlled by the lord of Yamagat Castle was also reduced.</p><p>Yamagata Castle is well known today for the authentic wooden econstruction of the East Gate. As you can see from the above picture, this is a masugata style gate. The 2 tamon yagura, high stone walled moat, and the walls surrounding the top make it most impregnable. </p>
 
 
|Visits=
September 12, 2003
|Japanese Notes=
 
 
|Year Visited=
2003
|Website=
 
http://www.kankou.yamagata.yamagata.jp/
 
|rating_average=
2.3
|castleElev=
133
|ekiLatLng=
38.24845,140.327473
|ekiElev=
139
|elevChange=
-6
|kamon=
mogami.jpg
|kamonFam=
Mogami
|adminRating=
2
|oldID=
31
|GPSLocation=
38.25549535069993,140.32760739326477
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Latest revision as of 19:24, 17 August 2023

This castle is much bigger than you might expect and is really one of the best castles to visit in Tohoku. The East Main Gate was rebuilt in wood many years ago, but recently the Honmaru Masugata Gate has been splendidly rebuilt and they are still excavating around the honmaru with plans for furthe

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History

The castle originally established by Shiba Kaneyori at Yamagata is said to have been about the size of the honmaru of the later Yamagata castle. Shiba later took the name of the surrounding area and changed his name to Mogami. Mogami's ancestor Mogami Yoshiaki reconstructed the castle into a much larger fortress in 1592. He added the Ninomaru and Sannomaru baileys, but there was never a large main keep that you see at other castles. It did however have three 2 story and one 3 story yagura. While Mogami Yoshiaki went to the Battle of Sekigahara with Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kagekatsu's general Naoe Kanetsugu went to attack Yamagata Castle but, supposedly, he could not find it in the thick fog. Thereafter, the castle was also known as kasumigajo, the castle in the haze.

At his peak after the battle of Sekigahara, Yoshiaki controlled land yielding 570,000 koku. Yoshiaki died in 1614 and his successor Iechika died shortly thereafter in 1617. His sucessor Yoshitoshi was reduced to 300,000 koku and later reassigned to Mikawa. The importance of Yamagata Castle to the Tokugawa rule over Eastern Japan declined over time, and with it the size of territory controlled by the lord of Yamagata Castle was also reduced.


Field Notes

This castle is much bigger than you might expect and is really one of the best castles to visit in Tohoku. The East Main Gate was rebuilt in wood many years ago, but recently the Honmaru Masugata Gate has been splendidly rebuilt and they are still excavating around the honmaru with plans for further development. When you visit this castle, take time to walk around the top of the earthen embankment that encircles the Ninomaru and above the moat. You can catch many nice views of the moat and see the stone walls of the other three gates and the foundations of 2 more yagura. A couple of the gates are complex with very nice stonework.


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Gallery
  • East Main Gate
  • Ninomaru Moat outside the East Main Gate
  • Moat outside the East Main Gate
  • East Main Gate masugata
  • Yaguramon Gate of the East Main gate
  • Yaguramon Gate of the East Main gate
  • Yaguramon Gate of the East Main gate
  • Walls of the East Main Gate masugata
  • Inside the East Main Gate
  • Inside the East Main Gate
  • Honmaru moat and gate
  • Honmaru Gate
  • Honmaru Gate
  • Honmaru Gate
  • Honmaru Gate
  • Koraimon of the Honmaru Masugata
  • Honmaru Masugata Gate
  • South Gate stone walls
  • South Gate stone walls
  • South Gate
  • East Ninomaru moat
  • Ninomaru East Embankment
  • Ninomaru East Embankment
  • Ninomaru East Embankment and Moat
  • Ninomaru East Embankment
  • North Gate stone walls
  • North Gate stone walls
  • North Gate stone walls
  • North Gate stone walls
  • North Gate stone walls
  • West Gate stone walls and moat
  • West Gate stone walls
  • West Gate stone walls and moat
  • West Gate
  • West Gate stone walls
  • West Gate stone walls
  • West Gate
  • West Gate. It looks like a double masugata.
  • Kokuin of the North Gate stone walls
  • Part of the Honmaru still under survey


Castle Profile
English Name Yamagata Castle
Japanese Name 山形城
Alternate Names Kasumiga-jo, Kajo
Founder Shiba (Mogami) Kaneyori
Year Founded 1356
Castle Type Flatland
Castle Condition No main keep but other buildings
Designations Top 100 Castles, National Historic Site
Historical Period Edo Period
Features gates, turrets, bridges, water moats, trenches, stone walls, walls
Visitor Information
Access Yamagata Station (Yamagata Shinkansen), walk 15 mins
Hours The park is open from 5am-10pm from April to November and from 5:30am in the winter months. The East Main Gate is only open from April until the Culture Day weekend in November. Check the website for details about dates and times.
Time Required 120 mins
URL Castle Website
Location Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
Coordinates 38.2555, 140.32761
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Admin
Added to Jcastle 2003
Contributor Eric
Admin Year Visited 2003, 2017
Admin Visits September 12, 2003; November 2, 2017


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