Hagi Castle - Main Castle Area

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This collection of photos focuses on the "lower castle" or the main part of what we call Hagi Castle where the tenshu (main keep) once stood. One of the charms of this site is few signs, trails, or even fences to prevent you from roaming around. Hidden in the depths of the castle grounds are some ol

Hagi Castle - Main Areas

This collection of photos focuses on the "lower castle" or the main part of what we call Hagi Castle where the tenshu (main keep) once stood. One of the charms of this site is few signs, trails, or even fences to prevent you from roaming around. Hidden in the depths of the castle grounds are some old stone walls that are not frequently covered and some even have the mostly dissolved remains of the clay walls that once stood atop them. Around the west side of the peninsula is a former yagura (watchtower) site that is also infrequently covered and near there are more stone walls hidden in the woods. Along the east coast of the peninsula we can also find many old clay walls in various states of weathering and dissolving before our eyes.

In the Sengoku Period we often see the paring of a flatland castle with a nearby mountain redoubt (called Tsume-no-shiro). This is essentially the design of Hagi Castle too. In the case of Hagi, the flatland castle (including the honmaru and main keep) and the mountain redoubt are so close they really merge into one big castle complex creating one of the most unique and defensible castles I've seen. In the case of Hagi the Tsuma-no-shiro is a Tsuma-no-maru.

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