En un regard
Le château en bref
Completed by 1516 at the latest for Hosokawa Takakuni, the castle occupies Mount Miyoshi (182 m), isolated on three sides by the gorges of the Akuta, on the road linking Takatsuki and Kameoka. Measuring roughly 500 m by 400 m and comprising twenty-eight enclosures arranged in three groups, it forms the largest complex of its kind in Settsu Province. Its importance is above all political: from 1553 to 1560, Miyoshi Nagayoshi made it the seat of a power dominating the Kinai, to the point that some affairs were handled there rather than in Kyoto. A fire at the beginning of 1556 destroyed the residences of his son Yoshioki and of Matsunaga Hisahide.
Oda Nobunaga stayed there in 1568 before entering the capital with Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Wada Koremasa then received the site; the rise of Takatsuki from 1569 deprived it of its function, and Takayama Ukon is the last holder cited, around 1573. The excavations of 1993 and 2020 revealed buildings on stone foundations at the summit, and stone walls survive on the approach, witnesses to building practices predating Nobunaga's castles. Designated a National Historic Site on 10 November 2022, the place, which lies on private land, has not been developed for visitors.
