En un regard
Le château en bref
Shioda Castle (塩田城, Shioda-jō) lies in the Maeyama district of Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, at the northern foot of Mount Kōbō, facing the Shioda Plain. This hillside castle (yamajiro), about 700 metres long and at most 180 metres wide, is protected by ravines. Long associated with the Hōjō of Shioda, who disappeared in 1333, it was in fact not their seat according to excavations: its surviving built remains date mainly from the late Muromachi period. After 1333, the territory passed to the Murakami, who installed their vassals, the Fukuzawa, there; Takeda Shingen seized it in 1553 and placed members of the Obu clan there, and the castle was then abandoned after the fall of the Takeda in 1582. More than twenty terraces, a dry moat, a fortified entrance, stone masonry, a well and the foundations of a large building were identified during excavations carried out from 1967 to 1977. The site has been protected as a prefectural historic site since 13 April 1970.