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Horikawa Castle (堀川城), whose location is designated as the "traditional site of Horikawa Castle", is situated in Hosoe-chō Kiga, in Hamana District of Hamamatsu (Shizuoka Prefecture). This flatland castle (hirajiro) occupied the marshes at the mouth of the Miyakoda River, near the Hime Kaidō road, and drew on the waters of Lake Hamana: surrounded by water at high tide, by wetlands at low tide. It is said to have been built after the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto at Okehazama in 1560, by the notables and inhabitants of Kiga, who were alarmed by the expansion of the Tokugawa. In 1569, Tokugawa Ieyasu attacked it during the suppression of the Kiga uprising, known as the Horikawa ikki; tradition speaks of some 2,000 defenders, men and women alike, and many of the defenders were massacred or executed, though these figures remain uncertain. A historic site of the city, the location is today a small memorial space with a stele, 600 metres from the Gokumonnawate, the place where heads were displayed.