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was a Japanese castle located in the city of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was a ''hirayama-jō'', a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain. During the Edo period, Numazu castle was home to the Mizuno clan, ''daimyō'' of Numazu Domain. ==History== In April 1777, when the former ''wakadoshiyori'' Mizuno Tadatomo was transferred from Ohama Domain in Mikawa province to Numazu, he was assigned revenues of 20,000 ''koku'' and authorized to build a castle. The site he chose was the ruins of , a Sengoku period fortification which had been erected by Takeda Katsuyori in 1579, and destroyed in 1614, when the Numazu area became a ''tenryō'' territory after the death of Ōkubo Tadasuke. The castle consisted of three concentric moats forming three baileys. The keep was a three-story structure. Numazu prospered in the Edo period as Numazu-juku on the Tōkaidō, and eight generations of the Mizuno clan resided at Numazu castle, with their revenues eventually rising to 50,000 ''koku''. After the Meiji Restoration, Numazu Domain was abolished with the creation of Shizuoka Domain for the retired ex-Shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu in July 1868. However, in 1873, the Meiji government ordering the dismantling of all castles and fortifications in Japan. Numazu castle was destroyed, its moats filled in, and its land sold to private holders. Today, all that remains is a small park with a monument marking the site of the donjon in the inner bailey, and a small fragment of the stone walls lining part of the old moats. The Numazu Military Academy, one of the first western-style public schools in Japan and a forerunner of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy was located within the walls of Numazu Castle from December 1868 to 1871. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Numazu Castle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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