- Type
- Castle
- Origins
- 1585 · 16th century per Wikidata: founding, first mention or construction
- Location
- Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
- Commissioned by
- Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Coordinates
- 34.9792°, 138.3833°
History
On the site of the former Imagawa residence, where the young Tokugawa Ieyasu had lived as a hostage, he built his own castle in 1585. When Ieyasu moved to Edo in 1590, Sunpu passed to Nakamura Kazuuji. In 1607 Ieyasu, having handed the office of shogun to his son, settled here as the retired ōgosho and had the castle lavishly enlarged; after a fire that same year it was swiftly rebuilt. Ieyasu died at Sunpu in 1616. The main keep burned in 1635 and was never rebuilt, and in the Meiji era the castle was demolished, part of its moats filled in and army barracks built on the site.
What to see
The castle grounds are now Sunpu Park, ringed by the surviving outer moat and stone walls. The east gate with the Tatsumi corner turret and the Hitsujisaru turret have been reconstructed and house exhibitions. A statue of Ieyasu holding a hawk stands in the park, and on the site of the former keep excavations have uncovered foundations from different phases of the castle's construction.
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