En un regard
Le château en bref
The site occupies a hill on the right bank of the Abukuma, at the gateway to the Tōhoku region. According to the Shirakawa fudoki, Yūki Chikatomo established a stronghold here between 1340 and 1369, and the lineage's seat moved to Komine around 1504-1520 from Shirakawa Castle, about 3 km away. The confiscation of the Yūki lands in 1590 reduced Komine to a secondary stronghold of the Aizu domain for 37 years. Everything changed in 1627 with Niwa Nagashige, first lord of the Shirakawa domain: in 1629, on the orders of the shogunate, he launched a four-year project that moved the course of the river northwards and gave the castle its plan of stepped enclosures, extensively faced with stone. Several daimyō families then succeeded one another here, including that of Matsudaira Sadanobu. In 1868, the fighting on the Shirakawa front during the Boshin War led to the castle's fall and burning. The Tōhoku railway line later cut through the third enclosure. Excavations begun in the 1980s provided the basis for the wooden reconstructions of the Sanjū-yagura (1991) and the Mae-gomon (1994). The 2011 earthquake brought down several sections of masonry, which were rebuilt up to 2019, before work began on the Shimizu-mon gate.
- Époque de construction
- 1340–1632
- Localisation
- Shirakawa, Préfecture de Fukushima
- Protection
- Site historique national (史跡 小峰城跡), désigné le 5 août 2010, extensions le 19 septembre 2012 et le 14 mars 2014 (la ville mentionne aussi 2021)
- Accès au public
- Ouvert au public
- État
- Restauré
