Shinshiro Castle

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Le château en bref

Shinshiro Castle – literally "new castle" – gave the town its name. It was born of the Battle of Nagashino: in 1575 Okudaira Sadamasa, who had held Nagashino Castle against Takeda Katsuyori's army, received the character "Nobu" from Nobunaga and became Nobumasa. On Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders he built a new castle further down the Toyokawa, completed in September 1576, and developed a town around it. After the Okudaira left, the castle changed hands several times before passing in 1648 to the Suganuma clan, who made it a simple fortified residence (jinya) until the end of the shogunate. The palace survived until about 1887; most of the earthen ramparts disappeared around 1940 when a school was built. A section of rampart about twenty metres long survives at the south-east corner, the only visible trace of the castle.