Thursday, April 8, 2010

OGUCHI CASTLE

During the Battle of Komaki Nagakute one of the Warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi's men set up camp on this knoll just west of the current Nagoya Airport with some 3,000 samurai. This site is pretty much unknown, and not well marked out. I only found it after visiting the old castle site of Oguchi, which I found while researching info on the battle.....
The entrance way to Oguchi Castle. The Nagoya region was the center point for the period of civil war, which raged between 1400 and 1615. One of my interests is to visit the old castle ruins. This one has had it's look-out tower replaced, altho' bigger than the original...

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