Personnalité historique

Sakazaki Naomori

Sakazaki Naomori (also called Narimasa, died 1616) is the lord who gave Tsuwano Castle its fortress form with stone walls. Rewarded for his role at Sekigahara, he received the Tsuwano domain, estimated at 30,000 koku, in 1601. He enlarged the former Yoshimi mountain castle, raised high stone walls there, and built the advanced bastion of Oribe-maru to the north. His career ended abruptly in 1616. According to tradition, he had rescued Princess Sen, granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, from the burning Ōsaka Castle in 1615, and then planned to abduct her when she was promised to another man. He died and his domain was confiscated. The walls he had built remain the main visible vestige of Tsuwano.

Décès1616

MaisonClan Sakazaki

ÉpoqueAzuchi-Momoyama / early Edo

Histoire & patrimoine

An End Surrounded by Accounts

The circumstances of Naomori's death are reported in various ways. The most widespread account, which guidebooks present with caution, links his downfall to Princess Sen: after having rescued her at Ōsaka, he is said to have wished to prevent her marriage to Honda Tadatoki. The classification notice merely states that he was killed in 1616 and that his domain passed to the Kamei.