Inuyama Castle

Inuyama Castle positioned within the metropolis of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The fort overlooks the Kiso River, which serves as the border among Aichi and Gifu prefectures. Inuyama Castle is one in every of simplest 12 unique Japanese castles. Inuyama Castle is frequently claimed because the oldest citadel in Japan. Its authentic creation became finished in 1440. According to Engishiki a Heian Period-book, Haritsuna Shrine a Shinto shrine become moved to make way for the citadel. That shape has been closely augmented over the years, and the current towers were completed in 1537, by means of Oda Nobuyasu, Oda Nobunaga's uncle.

Though the antiquated architectural fashion of the watchtower atop the tenshu has inside the past led many historians to accept as true with this to be the oldest extant tenshu in Japan, that honor is going to Maruoka Castle, built in 1576. Construction on the primary tenshu donjon at Inuyama commenced in 1601, and persisted through 1620. Castle become moved to the castle from Kanayama Castle in 1599, until such idea become disproved as a result of examination thru a massive scale recuperation work.