Moriyama Castle Ruins - Nagoya

A castle that is indispensable for talking about the early days of Oda Nobunaga. There is a simple information board and a stone monument. Currently it is a bamboo bush, but you can see the traces of the empty moat and earthworks.

Usually, it feels like it's in the precincts of a temple, but it's a nostalgic move up from the entrance on the grounds of the next apartment. Atmosphere that even a snake can get out of the grass. Shoes are mandatory.

It seems that the earthworks remain. A large earthwork remains, but the private house and the earthwork are too close. According to "Oshu Kojoshi", the scale of Hirayama Castle is about 58 meters from east to west, about 51 meters from north to south, and moats on all sides. In Hidene Kawamura, it is a single moat, and in Tokuyoshi Okumura, it is a double moat. On the hill, which is said to be the ruins of a castle, there is a temple that was later built for Kiyoyasu, and a monument to the castle is also built. The remains include an empty moat in the bamboo grove behind the temple, as well as a part of the foundation where the main enclosure was said to have been.

Moriyama Castle in the collapse of Moriyama. There was a signboard at the corner of the apartment behind the temple. I went up the stairs and came out a little open, but unfortunately the image of the castle did not spring up.

A castle ruin quietly located in the back mountain of a residential area. The date of foundation and the founder are unknown. There is an entrance to the mountain from the site of the house, and a large stone monument stands up the stairs overgrown with vegetation. Below the signboard built by Nagoya City at the entrance, there is a small signboard for directions set up by the Moriyama Ward Office. Without it, you wouldn't be able to reach it. Also, the roads around here are loopholes, so you need to be careful as cars can pass through. And as you pass through the premises of the house, you have to be careful not to talk loudly or stay longer.

A castle built by Matsudaira Nobusada. It is a single moat castle 58m east-west and 51m north-south. In the 6th year of Daiei (1526), ​​Socho visited and held a renga. The phrase at that time was "Flower and the Beast, Kaze no Sekimori Yamamichiya". This memoir of Socho is the first record of "Moriyama" and "Moriyama Castle". It is the stage of "Moriyama Collapse" where Kiyoyasu Matsudaira, who was set up in Moriyama Castle in 1535, was killed by his vassals. After that, it belonged to Nobuhide Oda, and it is said that the castle was abandoned after the Battle of Okehazama. Kiyoyasu Matsudaira, the lord of Mikawa Okazaki Castle, started the invasion of Owari, and Nobusada's son-in-law, Nobusada, set out at Moriyama Castle, the lord of the castle. However, the rumors that Kiyoyasu's vassal, Abe Sadayoshi, had passed through to Oda, upset the team, and as a result Kiyoyasu was killed by Sadakichi Takao. This was a big trigger for Mr. Matsudaira's decline in power, and it came to be called "Moriyama collapse". After that, Moriyama Castle began to function as a base for the Oda Clan Masatada family, but Nobumitsu moved to Nakono Castle in the first year of Koji (1555). Later, Nobunaga's uncle Shinji, who was the owner of the Oda clan, joined, but his vassals murdered Nobunaga's younger brother Hidetaka and were chased, and Nobunaga's younger brother Nobutoki became the castle owner. After that, Nobutoki was seppuku by his vassals, and the castle owner disappeared. After that, Nobutsugu, who was allowed by Nobunaga, returned to Moriyama Castle and lived until he died in Ikko-ikki, Nagashima in 1574. Moriyama Castle was a battleground between Matsudaira Mikawa and the Masatada Oda clan, and later functioned as the stage for the Oda clan's internal conflict. So this Moriyama castle can be said to be a castle related to Nobunaga-san. (Impression) It is in the temple grounds in a residential area. It is a land that has risen only there. It feels like it has been sharpened and reduced due to the conversion to residential land. The stairs also collapsed suddenly. If you don't get off slowly and carefully, you may get injured. The road in front of you is a loophole, and it is very dangerous because cars run on narrow roads. I parked in the parking lot of the temple.

The signboard of Moriyama Castle has not changed, but a signboard for directions has been added. You will pass through the premises of the apartment and climb the hills. Please be careful when going down slowly as your feet are bad. Also, it is prompt so as not to bother the residents of the apartment. There is a stone monument in the mowed square and you can see it as a castle ruin. It is said that there was a double moat in the castle of the Matsudaira family. Since there are many castle ruins from the open scenery, it is one step higher around here, and the scenery is good and I think that Iwasaki Castle and Komaki Castle looked like Mt. Kinka.