En un regard
Le château en bref
Sone Castle (曽根城, Sone-jō) stood in the Sone-chō district of Ōgaki, in Gifu Prefecture. This flatland castle (hirajiro) had its main enclosure on the site of the present-day Kakei-ji temple. The date of its founding is not known. It was notably the residence of Inaba Ittetsu (1515–1589), one of the three great lords of western Mino. In 1600, during the Sekigahara campaign, its lord Nishio Mitsunori joined the Eastern Army of Tokugawa; Ishida Mitsunari ordered the neighbouring lords to destroy the fortress, after which Matsudaira Yasunaga and Mizuno Katsunari took up positions there to prepare operations against Ōgaki Castle. No surviving earthwork or moat is described. Recognised as a historic site by the city of Ōgaki, the location now forms the Kakei-ji temple and the Sone Castle Park, with ponds, lawns and irises, open to the public.