Nagasawa Palace
The site today of Nagasawa-goten in Nagasawa Township, Toyokawa Municipality, is now a school and nursey adjacent to a motorway. There is a small green space located above the school where I wanted to check but it was fenced off. There is apparently a well here, said to be the remains of the palace,
History
The Nagasawa-goten was built on the ruins of Nagasawajō in 1634. ‘Goten’ were essentially luxurious inns used by the Shoguns travelling between Edo and Kyoto. They became redundant since the Shoguns became unaccountable to the Emperor until the 1860s. Nagasawa-goten, along with many other such facilities, was decommissioned in 1680. Unlike the other fortification and residence sites in Nagasawa Village, Nagasawa-goten was built in the Edo period once the medieval residences had already been abandoned. It overlaps with the site of Nagasawa Castle, located in the southeast of the castle’s centre, but is not contemporaneous.
Field Notes
The site today of Nagasawa-goten in Nagasawa Township, Toyokawa Municipality, is now a school and nursey adjacent to a motorway. There is a small green space located above the school where I wanted to check but it was fenced off. There is apparently a well here, said to be the remains of the palace, called ‘Cosmetics Well’, indicating it was used by women at the palace.
| Castle Profile | |
|---|---|
| English Name | Nagasawa Palace |
| Japanese Name | 長沢御殿 |
| Founder | Tokugawa-bakufu |
| Year Founded | 1634 |
| Castle Type | Flatland |
| Castle Condition | Ruins only |
| Historical Period | Edo Period |
| Artifacts | Well |
| Features | |
| Visitor Information | |
| Access | Meiden-Nagasawa on the Meitetsu Nagoya Line; 8 min walk |
| Hours | Private Property |
| Time Required | 5 minutes |
| Location | Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture |
| Coordinates | 34.86853, 137.29067 |
| Admin | |
| Added to Jcastle | 2023 |
| Contributor | ART |
| Admin Year Visited | Viewer Contributed |
| Friends of JCastle | |
| Jōkaku Hōrōki | |
| Jōkaku Shashin Kiroku | |
