Kiyosu Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Kiyosu Castle is where Oda Nobunaga's rise began. The young lord took it in 1555 and used it as his base for about ten years; it was from here that he set out in 1560 for the battle of Okehazama. After his death in 1582, his generals met here to settle the succession at the "Kiyosu Conference". His son Nobukatsu enlarged it in 1586, and Fukushima Masanori later became its lord. In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to move the capital of Owari to Nagoya: between 1610 and 1613 the town, its inhabitants and much of the castle's material were relocated, and the keep was reassembled as a turret at Nagoya. Today only traces of the site remain, cut through by the Tōkaidō railway and Shinkansen lines, along with a section of wall found during works and re-erected in the park. The present keep, built in 1989 on the other bank of the Gojō River, is an evocation rather than a reconstruction, since the original's form is unknown. It houses a museum.