Yodo Castle
The castle guarding the southern approach to Kyoto, seat of the Edo-period Yodo Domain.
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Yodo Castle stood in what is now Fushimi, Kyoto, and served as the seat of the Yodo Domain, a feudal domain of the Edo period. It was the only domain in Yamashiro Province, and its position made it a guard post for Kyoto. The site mattered in war more than once: its strategic location figured in the 1582 Battle of Yamazaki, and during the 1868 Battle of Toba–Fushimi its lord shut the gates on the retreating army of the shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu after siding with Imperial forces.
Quick Facts
- Location
- Fushimi, Kyoto (Yamashiro Province)
- Domain founded
- 1623
- First lord
- Matsudaira Sadatsuna
- Final daimyo
- Inaba Masakuni
- Longest-ruling family
- Inaba
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Background
The domain was created in 1623, when Matsudaira Sadatsuna arrived from the Kakegawa Domain with 35,000 koku to replace the Fushimi domain abolished a year earlier. Sadatsuna put great effort into building Yodo Castle. Tradition holds that this castle sat apart from Yodo Old Castle, the earlier residence of Yodo-dono, mother of Toyotomi Hideyori. After Sadatsuna moved on in 1633, Nagai Naomasa took over with 100,000 koku, organised his retainers, developed the castle town and worked on the Kizugawa River to control flooding. A series of families followed, including the Ishikawa and Matsudaira lines, until Inaba Masatomo came in with 102,000 koku and the Inaba family held the castle through to the Meiji period.
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