En un regard
Le château en bref
Aburakawa Castle is a medieval fortress in the north-west of the present-day city of Aomori, in northern Honshū. It occupied an isolated terrace overlooking an alluvial plain, about two hundred metres from east to west and three hundred and fifty from north to south. Its date of foundation is unknown; it is said to have been the residence of the Okuse clan, vassals of the Nanbu. The remains, enclosures surrounded by ditches and earthen banks, together with fragments of 15th- and 16th-century pottery, attest to occupation in the late Middle Ages. In 1585, Ōura Tamenobu, the future first lord of Hirosaki, attacked the region; according to the chronicles, the defenders fled towards Tanabu without fighting. The site is now occupied by fields.