En un regard
Le château en bref
Ikejiri Castle (池尻城, Ikejiri-jō) stood in the Ikejiri district of Ōgaki, in Gifu Prefecture, on a rise north of the former village, within the former Anpachi District. This flatland castle (hirajiro) is said to have been founded during the Tenbun era (1532–1555) by Iinuma Nagatsugu, lord of Tsushima and retainer of Toki Yoriaki, governor of Mino. It controlled access to the Fuwa Pass leading to the Mino Plain and, under the Toki and then the Saitō, served as a defence against the Asakura of Echizen and the Azai of Ōmi. The founder's son later served Oda Nobunaga and fought in 1570. After Nobunaga's death in 1582, he was killed in Ōgaki on suspicion of treachery, and the castle passed to Hideyoshi and then to Ikeda Terumasa, lord of Ikejiri from 1583 to 1584, before the latter became lord of Gifu following the Battle of Komaki-Nagakute. No visible remains are reported today; only the site is known, a few minutes' walk from Higashi-Akasaka Station.