Ono Castle

Ono Castle became a Japanese castle positioned inside the town of Ono Fukui Prefecture, within the Hokuriku place of Japan. Built inside the Sengoku length, it become occupied by way of a succession of daimya of Ono Domain below the Edo length Tokugawa shogunate. During the early Sengoku period, the region round Ono became below the manage of the Asakura clan; but Ono turned into additionally a primary stronghold of the Ikka-ikki motion. After both the Asakura and the Ikka-ikki had been destroyed with the aid of Oda Nobunaga in 1575, he assigned the region to his fashionable Kanamori Nagachika under the nearby manage of Shibata Katsuie.

Kanamori started out the development of Ono Castle the use of the contemporary contemporary designs, and the castle changed into finished by means of 1580. Kanamori become in the end promoted to governor of Hida Province in 1586, and the vicinity turned into assigned to Aoki Kazunori observed via Oda Hidekatsu with the aid of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. After the Battle of Sekigahara, the whole province of Echizen changed into assigned with the aid of Tokugawa Ieyasu to his 2nd son, Yaki Hideyasu in 1601 as Fukui Domain. In 1624, Fukui Domain become divided, with Yaki Hideyasu's third son, Matsudaira Naomasa being awarded a 55,000 koku fief focused at Ono.