Suemori Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Suemori Castle, in Nagoya's Chikusa ward, is regarded as the best-preserved Sengoku-period castle in the city. Oda Nobuhide, Nobunaga's father, had it built in 1547 or 1548 at the tip of the Higashiyama hills to guard the east of Owari Province against the Matsudaira and the Imagawa, and moved his residence there. On his death the castle passed not to Nobunaga but to his younger brother Oda Nobukatsu (also called Nobuyuki), who rebelled in 1556 and withdrew here after the defeat at Inō; their mother, who lived in the castle, obtained his pardon. In 1557-1558 Nobukatsu was lured to Kiyosu and killed, and Suemori was abandoned after barely ten years. The Shiroyama Hachiman shrine now occupies the site, 43 metres high and about 200 × 160 metres, where deep dry moats, enclosures and earthworks survive.