It is the old castle of the most latter period in Japan with Ishida Castle. I develop the armed forces (Toshizo Hijikata of the Class former newly-compiled book led you) and the offense and defense of the old Shogunate where the Ezo aims at the independence of the island (Hokkaido) in the most last years of the Boshin War, and even what was made to fall is famous. The whole area in the old castle is appointed on the historic spot of the country, and a main enclosure gate of a palace existing again from construction of a castle time is appointed to the important cultural property of the country. It was chosen to Hokkaido inheritance ("Fukuyama-jo Castle" and Teramachi) in 2001.
The history / history
Fukuyama building
I moved to Fukuyama (the position of Matsumae Castle) from Oodate that the Kakizakis (the Matsumaes) regarded as a castle and I could write it from (Keicho era five years) in Keicho era 11 in 1600 and built the encampment. When Russian fleets would visit a shore later, the Shogunate was aimed for the northern guard to (Kaei era two years) in 1849 and commanded Takahiro Matsumae to do Fukuyama building reconstruction (Matsumae construction of a castle).
Construction of a castle
In the case of a construction of a castle plan, there was the opinion to construct a castle geographically on strong position and the Fushiushi mountain (Mt. Hakodate-yama) of the box building that it could be it not Fukuyama of the present location, but I calmed down by a method to expand Fukuyama building that was a house of then Matsumae partly because dissenting opinion and a budget that a merchant of Shiroshita received a blow of the economy in what a castle moved to, and Matsumae Port was deserted said if it was rare and constructed a castle in a tiered stand for dolls type from outermost outworks for the Tsugaru straits in a main enclosure.
Expansion of old Fukuyama building rebuilds it by the territory of the person of Naganuma style military science / Ichikawa's best study and makes a for the first time triple castle tower at this time and I am completed and reach the (the Ansei first year) in 1854 when I came to be called Matsumae castle from these days. I did the passages from Out of the frying pan and into the fire. of the main enclosures of the castle to a main enclosure with the structure that I was easy to shoot with guns from complexity and the side I possessed a battery for bombardment from a warship from the sea side and and I taught you an iron plate in a castle wall. Because the then tile sucked in water in the severe cold of Hokkaido and expanded and might have been able to break it, the castle tower and the roof of the gate covered the covering a roof with shingles in a copper sheet.
The wall of the castle tower painted the framework that I knit out of bamboo between the pillar with plaster, but I taught you a zelkova board firm inside and usually did it with the preparation so that it was born bombardment of Russia round.
The green tuff which it was easy to process comparatively softly that the stone of Ishigaki was produced at a nearby mountain was used, and it was the castle where it was unusual nationwide covered in green Ishigaki. The device how a stone is spread all over so that there is not it of the gap is done so that back soil of Ishigaki begins to flow in the case of thawing for the north ground. Because I have orthopedic treatment with a chisel carefully, and the stone which I piled up without a gap resembles a design of hexangular figure Luo, it is said the carapace of a turtle heaping up. But I was not able to do it with a large-scale castle because there was not so distance from the plateau of Fukuyama that was the center of the castle to the shore.
The offensive and defensive battle in the Boshin War and the fall of a castle
Matsumae Castle experiences the intense offensive and defensive battle without being concerned with the construction of a castle of the late Tokugawa period. The army which did Takeaki Enomoto of the old Shogunate where the Ezo aimed at the independent government establishment in the island with the chief brought each place of the Oshima peninsula under control and Toshizo Hijikata of the cause newly-compiled book group led approximately 700 on November 5 and attacked Matsumae castle in autumn (1868) for 1868 years. Although I tried for a defensive fight, the armed forces of the Matsumae feudal clan have fallen in only several hours. This is because the posture of the castle was too fragile in spite of being the bombardment from a warship of the old Shogunate force warship from the Gulf of Hakodate going away. If the effect that the passage from Ote-mon Gate wound, and it was easy to be it for a thing of a gun was poised, Ichikawa who was a person of military science of Naganuma style did it, but, as the thing which I did not attack, a passage continued on a straight line, and, in the behind the story, the enemy had the gun interval as low deployment of little defense. I have become the form thrust this by Hijikata. Some bullet holes of this time stay in Ishigaki now.
However, the government of Enomoto surrendered in 1869, the following day, and
Matsumae Castle became the possession of Matsumae again, and, in the castle, it was it with possession of the Meiji government by the enforcement of the establishment of prefectures in place of feudal domains of the (1871) in 1871. Castle towers most buildings except the institution of the main enclosure were demolished to (1875) in 1875.
After the Showa era
Although castle tower, main enclosure gate of a palace, main enclosure gate of a palace east wall were based on a national treasure save method to (1941) in 1941, and it was appointed to a then national treasure (equivalent to "the important cultural property" of the existing law), the fire from the Masakicho government office which there was leaped to the site of castle (1949) on June 5 in 1949, and the castle tower and the main enclosure gate of a palace east wall were destroyed by fire afterwards. The castle tower is missing to (1961) from (1959) in 1961 in 1959, and it is rebuilt in steel reinforced concrete construction as Matsumae Castle museum. The building existing from foundation those days is only main enclosure gate of a palace and the main enclosure State Chamber entrance (Hokkaido tangible cultural property) and former Teramachi gate of a palace (the main gate of a Buddhist temple of the inspiration and expiration temple). As for the main enclosure gate of a palace of the old national treasure, the Cultural Properties Protection Act enforcement back of the (1950) is appointed to important cultural property in 1950. In addition, gay quarters / Ishigaki stays well, too, and the former site of a castle whole area is appointed on the historic spot of the country.
It was chosen (2006) on April 6 in 2006 by 100 Japanese fine castles (the third), and 100 Japanese fine castle stamp rally of the national scale was started in June (2007) in 2007.
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