Fukui Castle

Fukui Castle
福井城
Fukui, Fukui, Japan
The surviving moat and lower walls of the castle, with the Fukui prefectural office present on the site of the castle keep
Fukui Castle is located in Fukui Prefecture
Fukui Castle
Fukui Castle
Fukui Castle is located in Japan
Fukui Castle
Fukui Castle
Coordinates36°03′56″N 136°13′15″E / 36.065456°N 136.2209°E / 36.065456; 136.2209
Typeflatland-style Japanese castle
Site information
Controlled byShibata clan, Matsudaira clan
Site history
Built1573/1606
Built byShibata Katsuie, Yūki Hideyasu
In useSengoku period - 1889
Materialswood, stone
Demolished1871
Battles/warsBattle of Shizugatake
reconstruction of the central bailey

Fukui Castle (福井城, Fukui-jō) is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1] During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of Kitanoshō Castle (北ノ庄城, Kitanoshō-jō), after an earlier castle built by Shibata Katsuie, over whose ruins it is partly built.

  1. ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1976). Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan