Gifu Castle

Gifu Castle (岐阜城), formerly known as Inabayama Castle (稲葉山城),Echoes of History – Shadows – Episode 5: Oda Nobunaga is a in the city of , Japan. In the Sengoku period, Inabayama Castle was a stronghold for the that ruled over the . Oda Nobunaga, warring against clan leader and his father-in-law Saitō Dōsan, managed to weaken the clan through both diplomacy and bribing the Saitō generals, enough to allow for a siege and subsequent conquest of the castle in 1567, which he renamed Gifu Castle. Having established himself in Gifu, Oda Nobunaga received many guests at the castle, including the Jesuit historian Luís FróisEchoes of History – Shadows – Episode 3: Portuguese Missionaries in Japan and then-claimant to the position of shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who gave Nobunaga pretext to march on Kyoto in 1568.
==Appearances==
*Echoes of History – Shadows 
==References==
Category:Landmarks in Japan
Category:Castles