En un regard
Le château en bref
At Kameyama, on the high stone walls of the former honmaru, the Tamon-yagura is the only castle building still standing on its original site in Mie Prefecture. The site's history begins further west, with an earlier castle attributed to Seki Sanetada in the 13th century. In 1590, Okamoto Munenori moved and rebuilt the site. Tradition holds that in 1632 Horio Tadaharu, tasked with dismantling the keep of the homonymous Kameyama in Tanba, mistakenly destroyed that of Ise. Some see a deliberate manoeuvre, and no keep was ever rebuilt.
A plan from 1633 shows a long new building on this site, but the present structure is not that one. Municipal studies date it to between 1744 and 1854, most likely in the second half of the 18th century, under the Ishikawa. Damaged by the earthquake of 1854, sold in 1873 and converted into a cotton-weaving workshop, it thus escaped the demolition that befell the rest. After the wall partially collapsed in the earthquake of 2007, the restoration of 2011–2013 returned its white lime plaster, in place of the timber boarding fitted during the Meiji period. Designated a prefectural site in 1953, it belongs to the city.
- Époque de construction
- XVIᵉ siècle (1590)
- Localisation
- Kameyama, Préfecture de Mie
- Protection
- Site historique préfectoral de Mie (三重県指定史跡) (1953)
- Accès au public
- Visite sous conditions
- État
- Vestiges
- Usage actuel
- Parc public, Monument historique
