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Fushimi Castle 伏見城
Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan
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Type	Azuchi-Momoyama castle
Site information
Controlled by	Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592–1598) Torii Mototada (1598–1600) Tokugawa shogunate (1600–1623) Japan (1964–present)
Condition	Reconstructed; buildings closed to the public since 2003
Site history
Built	1592–1594, rebuilt late 1590s, again in 1964
Built by	Toyotomi Hideyoshi (original)
In use	1592–1623
Materials	stone, wood, plaster, gold
Demolished	1596 by an earthquake; dismantled 1623

Fushimi Castle (伏見城, Fushimi-jō), also known as Momoyama Castle (桃山城, Momoyama-jō) or Fushimi-Momoyama Castle, is a Japanese castle located in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto.

Fushimi Castle was constructed from 1592 to 1594 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the end of the Sengoku period as his retirement residence. Fushimi Castle was destroyed in the 1596 Keichō–Fushimi earthquake and rebuilt before eventually being demolished in 1623 and its site later used for the tomb of Emperor Meiji. The current Fushimi Castle is a replica constructed in 1964 near the original site in Fushimi.

The Azuchi–Momoyama period of Japanese history partially takes its name from Fushimi Castle.

History

Construction of the original Fushimi Castle begun in 1592, the year after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's retirement from the regency, and was completed in 1594. Twenty provinces provided workers for the construction, which numbered between 20,000 and 30,000.

Though bearing the external martial appearance of a castle, the structure was intended as a retirement palace for Hideyoshi, and was furnished and decorated as such. It is particularly famous for its Golden Tea Room, in which both the walls and the implements were covered in gold leaf. The castle was intended to be the site for Hideyoshi's peace talks with Chinese diplomats seeking an end to the Seven-Year War in Korea, but an earthquake destroyed the castle entirely only two years after its completion.

It was rebuilt soon afterwards, and came to be controlled by Torii Mototada, a vassal of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1600, the castle fell in a famous and significant siege by Ishida Mitsunari. Torii, in a celebrated act of honor and bravery, defended the castle for eleven days, delaying Ishida's forces and allowing his lord Tokugawa time to build his own army. This had a profound effect on the Battle of Sekigahara that came soon afterwards, and which marked the final victory of Tokugawa Ieyasu over all his rivals.

In 1623, the castle was dismantled, and many of its rooms and buildings were incorporated into castles and temples across Japan. Several temples in Kyoto, such as Yōgen-in (養源院), Genkō-an (源光庵), and Hōsen-in (宝泉院), have a blood-stained ceiling that had been the floor of a corridor at Fushimi Castle where survivors of Torii's garrison had committed seppuku after the castle's defenses were breached.

In 1912, the tomb of Emperor Meiji was built on the original site of the castle. The castle was not rebuilt until 1964, when a replica was created very nearby and primarily in concrete. The new structure served as a museum of the life and campaigns of Hideyoshi, and as the main attraction of a small theme park called "Castle Land", but was closed to the public in 2003. The castle grounds, however, were reopened in 2007.

See also

• Jurakudai—Hideyoshi's previous luxurious residence from 1587 to 1594

References

1. "Fushimi Castle". Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
2. "Castles of Japan". Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
3. Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan, 1334-1615. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 383-384. ISBN 0804705259.
4. "The Blood Ceilings of Kyoto, memories of Hideyoshi, Fushimi Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu". www.samuelhawley.com. Archived from the original on 2021-05-18. Retrieved 2015-08-17.
5. O'Grady, Daniel. "Japanese Castle Explorer – Fushimi Castle - 伏見城". www.japanese-castle-explorer.com.
6. "Fushimi-Momoyama Castle | Japan Experience". www.japan-experience.com. Retrieved 2022-06-08.

Further reading

• Benesch, Oleg and Ran Zwigenberg (2019). Japan's Castles: Citadels of Modernity in War and Peace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 374. ISBN 9781108481946.
• Bryant, Anthony J. (2005). Sekigahara 1600: The Final Struggle for Power. Praeger Publishers.
• De Lange, William (2021). An Encyclopedia of Japanese Castles. Groningen: Toyo Press. pp. 600 pages. ISBN 978-9492722300.
• Schmorleitz, Morton S. (1974). Castles in Japan. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Co. pp. 78–80. ISBN 0-8048-1102-4.
• Sansom, George (1961). A History of Japan: 1334–1615. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
• Turnbull, Stephen (2003). Japanese Castles 1540–1640. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

External links

• SengokuDaimyo.com : The website of Samurai Author and Historian Anthony J. Bryant. Accessed 4 April 2011.

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• 1590s establishments in Japan
• Buildings and structures in Kyoto
• Castles in Kyoto Prefecture
• Houses completed in 1594
• Tourist attractions in Kyoto
• Rebuilt buildings and structures in Japan