Yoshida Castle

Yoshida Castle is a Japanese fortress positioned in Toyohashi, southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the stop of the Edo period, Yoshida Castle was home to the Inaba clan, daimya of Tateyama Domain. The citadel changed into additionally referred to as Imabashi Castle and later as Toyohashi Castle. A citadel changed into built at the banks of the Toyogawa river in 1505 with the aid of Makino Kohaku, a retainer of Imagawa Ujichika to relaxed his foothold on jap Mikawa Province in opposition to the growing energy of the Matsudaira clan in western Mikawa Province.

Due to its strategic area on a river crossing, the citadel was concerned in severa battles at some stage in the Sengoku period, changing fingers numerous times, and changed into destroyed and rebuilt on numerous activities. From 1565, the citadel came beneath the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who named Sakai Tadatsugu as castellan. Following the Battle of Odawara in 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered the Tokugawa clan to relocate to the Kanti place and assigned the citadel to Ikeda Terumasa.

Ikeda advanced the surrounding citadel metropolis and embarked on a huge and ambitious plan to rebuild Yoshida Castle. However, following the Battle of Sekigahara, he became relocated to Himeji Castle. Much of the fortress grounds remained inside the palms of the military as the garrison of the IJA 18th Infantry Regiment till the give up of World War II. Following the stop of the struggle, a portion of the 0.33 bailey become converted into Toyohashi Park, and the cutting-edge Toyohashi City Hall become constructed on another element.