中山城跡

A deep moat remains in the territory of the castle in the mountains ? There is also a Western-style Lockheart Castle ? nearby! You can visit Japanese and Western castles ?♬

There is a parking lot along the road, with a stone monument and information boards. It may not be the original road, but you can climb directly to the main enclosure. The earthworks of the main enclosure are also excellent, but when I saw the empty moat overlooking from the earthworks, I was surprised. It is a stunningly huge empty moat. It is not a scale that can be built by a landlord, but it seems that the castle was clearly built under the leadership of Mr. Hojo. As you can see on the information board, it is similar to Nagaisaka Castle, but the scale of the empty moat was different. The castles built by Mr. Hojo at important bases are all wonderful, and you can get a glimpse of Mr. Hojo's economic power and mobilized troops.

It is said that Hojo's castle was built to compete with Sanada over the rule of Kozuke. Located between Sanada's Iwabashi Castle and Numata Castle, this castle tells Hojo's obsession with Ueno's national territory! Undergrowth is cut in the main enclosure and the surrounding empty moat, making it easy to check the condition of the remains. The Kuruwa other than the main enclosure is overgrown with grass. Sorabori is deeply spectacular!

A siege-type castle located in the position of Nakayamajuku on the Mikuni Highway. If you cross the Akane Pass to the north, you will reach Nagurumi Castle. If you cross the Nakayama Pass to the east, you will reach Kawada Castle. During the Tensho era, Mr. Sanada and Mr. Gohojo fought for territory over the territory of Numata, Kozuke. Nakayama Castle is Iwabitsu Castle, where Mr. Sanada, the Ueno clan of the Takeda army, who was aiming to advance to the Kanto region, invaded Ueno from Higashi Shinano and was the base of Nishi-Ueno rule, and Nagurumi Castle, which overlooks the Numata territory, which is a key point of Kita Ueno. It seems natural to think that it was a castle belonging to Sanada, which is on the connecting line of. However, after the death of Kenshin, Mr. Takeda was destroyed by the Echigo internal conflict (Siege of Otate), and after the change of Honnoji, Mr. Hojo advanced to Ueno after the change of Dosakusa (Tensho Iwabitsu). It can also be regarded as a castle on the border that was built (captured?) For the purpose of driving a wedge into the Kotojo connecting line. I'm not sure about the series of trends of the local samurai such as Aki Mamoru Nakayama and Mamoru Akamiyama who were the castle owners, but it seems that the current view is that it is a castle in Hojo. The information board says that the construction method of Nakayama Castle is "surprisingly similar to Nagaisaka Castle under the Akagi shelf (History of Gunma Prefecture)". Both of them have the same siege type, but they are Kata and Hirayama Castle, and Kata and Cliff Edge Castle. I wonder if it's so similar. I do not understand. From winter to early spring when the bushes and branches and leaves die, you can see the magnificent remains around the main enclosure from Prefectural Road 36, which runs on the east side of the castle toes. Also, on the way from Nakayama Castle to Akane Pass along the same prefectural road, the Echigo Nagaoka feudal lord (Makino?), Who was on the bed of illness in the early modern period, said, "I want to drink again before I die." There is "Shimizu (horse manure rock)". One of my favorite drive courses.

You can go from the information board on the road without walking too much. As soon as you greet the person who is mowing the grass on the way and climb, you will see the remains of Honmaru. It was easy to walk because it was after mowing. If you look into the area past the remains of the main enclosure, you can worship the powerful sky moat.

After purchasing the castle stamp in the roadside station Nakayama basin, climb the castle. Two minutes by car from the roadside station, there was a space where five or six cars could be parked in the space in front of the signboard explaining the castle ruins on the side of the road, so I put my car there and climbed the castle. There were a lot of tall grass, so it might be better to take measures against insects ฅ (๑ * д * ๑) ฅ !! Just in case the noise (ㆁ ᴗ ㆁ ✿)

I stayed in the car at a nearby roadside station and went the next morning. The scale is not large, but Horikiri retains the remnants of those days.

2018/4/1 The simple square main enclosure and the empty moat around it are very beautifully left. It seems that there were other Kuruwa, but I didn't understand well. The top of the earthworks looking up from the empty moat is far higher, and walking on the bottom of the moat makes me feel refreshed.