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Le château en bref
Takane Castle (高根城, Takane-jō) is located in Misakubo-chō Jitōgata, in Tenryū Ward of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. This mountain castle (yamajiro) occupies a summit 420 metres above sea level. According to tradition, it was founded in 1414 by the Okuyama family to protect Prince Yukiyoshi, an attribution that archaeology does not confirm. In 1569 it was captured by Tōyama Tosa-no-kami; the Takeda later remodelled it and used it during their offensive into Tōtōmi in 1572. The date of its abandonment is not known. Excavations uncovered the main enclosure and its structures, on the basis of which a watchtower, a main building, gates and palisades have been reconstructed in timber, providing a rare reconstruction of a medieval mountain castle. The site has been designated a Hamamatsu City Historic Site since 16 February 1982.