Echizen Ono Castle

Echizen Ono Castle is a Japanese castle that is in Ono City, Fukui Prefecture. Until the Meiji period, the administrative headquarters of the Ono Domain region was established. In 2017, it was included in "Second series Top 100 Japanese Castle". The castle which appears every conditions are met in the morning, is called "castle in the sky (Tian Kong noCheng )".
In 1575, Nagachika Kanamori began to build a castle on Kameyama mountain, a small mountain in Ono County. It took several years to build the castle. After the Kazunori Aoki's era, the Echizen Matsudaira family became a shogunal property, and the castle owner changed many times until the Doi family got it. The castle burned down in 1775 and was rebuilt in 1795 with the exception of the castle tower, but it was destroyed again after the Meiji Restoration. The castle tower today was built in the Showa period (1968).
Castle tower
Echizen Ono Castle had a large watchtower on the second and third floors with an observation tower in the main area and another smaller watchtower on the second floor. It also had multiple Kuruwa--districts limited by water, fence, or anything else. These districts were the secondary area of a castle (Er noWan , Ninomaru) and the furthest outer area (San noWan , Sannomaru) at the beginning of the Kameyama mountain, connecting a canal and a river to protect the castle tower. Protecting the castle tower was important role for Echizen Ono castle.
Stone wall
Echizen Ono Castle has a stone wall (Shi Yuan , ishigaki) which is a wall or fence made by assembling stones, with a construction method called Nozura-zumi (Ye Mian Ji mi), which is an old style stone wall piled up without processing natural stone. Nozura-zumi has a good drainage, which are resistant to weathering. This is nowadays a valuable historic site.
Lords of Echizen Ono Castle
In the history of Echizen Ono Castle, 19 different feudal lords have changed (Da Ming , daimyo), until the time in which the castle was sold in 1872. In addition to Nagachika Kanamori, the castle owners of the Azuchi-Momoyama period included Kazunori Aoki, who is said to be related to Hideyoshi Toyotomi, and Hideo Oda, the grandson of Nobunaga Oda.
Nagachika Kanamori (Jin Sen Chang Jin )
Hidekazu Hasegawa (Chang Gu Chuan Xiu Yi )
Kazunori Aoki (Qing Mu Yi Ju )
Hidekatsu Oda (Zhi Tian Xiu Xiong )
Masaaki Tsutsiya (Tu Wu Zheng Ming )
Tadatsugu tsuchiya (Tu Wu Zhong Ci )
Masakatsu Oguri (Xiao Li Zheng Sheng )
Naomasa Matsudaira (Song Ping Zhi Zheng )
Naomoto Matsudaira (Song Ping Zhi Ji )
Naoyoshi Matsudaira (Song Ping Zhi Liang )
Naoaki Matsudaira (Song Ping Zhi Ming )
Toshifusa Doi (Tu Jing Li Fang )
Toshimoto Doi (Tu Jing Li Zhi )
Toshihiro Doi (Tu Jing Li Kuan )
Toshisada Doi (Tu Jing Li Zhen )
Toshinori Doi (Tu Jing Li Yi )
Toshikata Doi (Tu Jing Li Qi )
Toshitada Doi (Tu Jing Li Zhong )
Toshitsune Doi (Tu Jing Li Heng )
References
Books used
Ji Tian Chun Yi {Fu Jing noCheng Fu Jing Wan Gang Da Ye Xiao Bang Qing Jiang Cheng } huenitsukusuChu Ban , (1994)
Ji Tian Chun Yi {Fu Jing noCheng arekoreHua } FUTFu Jing Cheng Guo Yan Jiu Suo , (2015)
Castles in Japan
16th-century buildings and structures
Buildings and structures in Fukui Prefecture