Toba Castle | |
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鳥羽城 | |
Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan | |
Coordinates | 34°28′50.98″N 136°50′40.38″E / 34.4808278°N 136.8445500°E |
Type | flatland-style Japanese castle |
Site information | |
Open to the public | yes |
Condition | ruins |
Site history | |
Built | 1594 |
Built by | Kuki Yoshitaka |
In use | Edo period |
Demolished | 1871 |
Toba Castle (鳥羽城, Toba-jō) was a Japanese castle (now in ruins) located in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Toba Castle was the administrative center for Toba Domain, a feudal domain of Shima Province under the Tokugawa shogunate. Toba Castle was also known as the Floating Castle of Toba (鳥羽の浮城, Toba-no-uki-jō) or the Two-color Castle (二色城, Nishoku-jō) (from the fact that its seaward side was painted black, and landward side painted white). The castle site received protection as a Mie Prefectural Historic Site in 1965.[1]