Odawara Castle Profile Renewed

I've renewed the Odawara Castle profile and most notably added an album just for pictures that detail the Sogamae (outer defenses) of Odawara Castle. The Sogamae is a network of over 9km of trenches and earthworks that surrounded Odawara Castle to help defend against

Odawara Castle Profile Renewed

2020/08/05

I've renewed the Odawara Castle profile and most notably added an album just for pictures that detail the Sogamae (outer defenses) of Odawara Castle. The Sogamae is a network of over 9km of trenches and earthworks that surrounded Odawara Castle to help defend against Hideyoshi's forces before the Siege of Odawara. There are some remnants in the city but most of them are in the mountains northwest of the castle. I strongly encourage castle fans to have a look at this album.

Another reason to re-visit this castle was to see the recently renovated castle museum. Photos for the rest of the castle have been renewed as well. I think I will need to re-visit Ishigakiyama Castle this fall to update those as well.

With this update, I've also changed how full size photos are displayed. If you click a photo in any album it should open faster and scaling to different browser sizes should be faster too. Profiles and photos more than 5 yrs old are usually uploaded in 600px sizes which don't enlarge, my more recent photos are 2000px and are scaled to the browser size. Some contributors though have been uploading even larger photo sizes so I hope this helps the latency of viewing larger photos. This new systems works better for panorama photos too allowing you to zoom in and out for more details. If you run into any problems please let me know.