Edo Period

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Edo Period / 江戸時代

This is a subtype of Historical Period

This category includes all those castles that were active in the Edo Period. At the beginning of the Edo Period the "One Castle Per Province" edict forced the abandonment of thousands of smaller castles throughout Japan. The castles that remained into the Edo Period or were newly built in the Edo Period saw many changes to their construction compared to earlier castles. Since a lord could only have one castle, it tended to be bigger. Castles also shifted to Hilltops or Plains from the mountains to make them more accessible and easier to govern from. As techniques improved you would see also bigger stone walls, wider moats to prevent gunfire, and larger main keeps. Some of these techniques were developed at the end of the Sengoku Period in places like Azuchi Castle and Osaka Castle but they really became most widespread in the Edo Period to the point where you could say they were standard features of Edo Period castles.

Edo Period castles also includes a subset of fortifications called jin'ya. Jin'ya are basically fortified government offices. They were built for small domains (generally less than 30,000 koku of rice) where the lord did not have the qualifications to be a "castle lord." These were called "castleless lords" or "jin'ya lords". Jin'ya were also established for domains, like Takayama (see Takayama Jin'ya), that were directly under control of the Tokugawa government. Jin'ya are often listed as castles in castle books and materials.

There were 300 provinces (with some minor changes through the period) in the Edo Period, so you could say that in the Edo Period alone there were 300 active castles (including a handful of jin'ya). For people who are new to visiting Japanese castles or whose image of Japanese castles is Himeji Castle these Edo Period castles are a good place to start on this adventure. With a few exceptions, all castles labelled as Edo Period in here are mostly cataloged in these books about the Edo Period castles of the 300 Han Castles and Jin'ya of 300 Edo Period Domains - East Japan (図説江戸三百藩「城と陣屋 (東国編)) and Castles and Jin'ya of 300 Edo Period Domains - West Japan (図説江戸三百藩「城と陣屋」(西国編)).

Castles with Edo Period
  1. Aizu Wakamatsu Castle
  2. Akashi Castle
  3. Akizuki Castle
  4. Akizuki Domain South Detached Palace
  5. Ako Castle
  6. Amagasaki Castle
  7. Annaka Castle
  8. Ashimori Jin'ya
  9. Azumi Wakamatsu Castle
  10. Baba Yashiki
  11. Bitchu Matsuyama Castle
  12. Chikuma Awaji Castle
  13. Chimura Yashiki
  14. Dannoura Battery
  15. Eboshigata Castle
  16. Echizen Katsuyama Castle
  17. Echizen Ohno Castle
  18. Edo Castle
  19. Fukuchiyama Castle
  20. Fukui Castle
  21. Fukuoka Castle
  22. Fukushima Castle (Echigo)
  23. Fukuyama Castle
  24. Funai Castle
  25. Goryokaku Fort
  26. Hagi Castle
  27. Hagiwarasuwa Castle
  28. Hamada Castle
  29. Hamamatsu Castle
  30. Hekirichi Jinya
  31. Hikobe Yashiki
  32. Hikone Castle
  33. Himeji Castle
  34. Hirado Castle
  35. Hirata Yashiki
  36. Hirosaki Castle
  37. Hiroshima Castle
  38. Hitoyoshi Castle
  39. Horinouchi Yashiki
  40. Hyogo Castle
  41. Iba Palace
  42. Ide Yakata
  43. Iga Ueno Castle
  44. Iida Castle
  45. Iijima Jin'ya
  46. Imabari Castle
  47. Imai Jin'ya
  48. Inawashiro Castle
  49. Inuyama Castle
  50. Isawa Jin'ya
  51. Itoi Jin'ya
  52. Itoigawa Jinya
  53. Iwaki Taira Castle
  54. Iwakuni Castle
  55. Iwamura Castle
  56. Iwatsuki Castle
  57. Iyo Matsuyama Castle
  58. Izuki Jin'ya
  59. Izumi Jin'ya
  60. Izushi Castle
  61. Junhanshi Yashiki
  62. Kagoshima Castle
  63. Kaibara Jinya
  64. Kakegawa Castle
  65. Kameda Castle
  66. Kamei Castle
  67. Kameyama Battery
  68. Kameyama Castle
  69. Kaminoyama Castle
  70. Kanazawa Castle
  71. Kanegasaki Castle (Iwate)
  72. Kano Castle
  73. Kanzou Yashiki
  74. Karasuyama Castle
  75. Karatsu Castle
  76. Kasama Castle
  77. Kashima Castle (Hizen)
  78. Kashiwabara Palace
  79. Katsunumashi Yakata
  80. Katsuyama Palace
  81. Kawagoe Castle
  82. Kishiwada Castle
  83. Kiso Daikansho
  84. Kitsuki Castle
  85. Kiyosaki Castle (Echigo)
  86. Kochi Castle
  87. Kofu Castle
  88. Kokura Castle
  89. Komatsu Castle
  90. Komoro Castle
  91. Koromo Castle
  92. Kubota Castle
  93. Kumamoto Castle
  94. Kurume Castle
  95. Kururi Castle
  96. Kushima Castle
  97. Kutsuki Izuminokami Jin'ya
  98. Kutsuki Shuzen Jin'ya
  99. Kuwana Castle
  100. Maebashi Castle
  101. Maeda Battery
  102. Makabe Castle
  103. Makabe Jinya
  104. Marugame Castle
  105. Maruoka Castle
  106. Matsudaira Yakata
  107. Matsue Castle
  108. Matsumae Castle
  109. Matsumoto Castle
  110. Matsusaka Castle
  111. Matsushiro Castle
  112. Mibu Castle
  113. Mihara Castle
  114. Minakuchi Castle
  115. Mito Castle
  116. Mizusawa Castle
  117. Momose Jin'ya
  118. Morioka Castle
  119. Murakami Castle
  120. Nabari Jinya
  121. Nabekura Castle
  122. Naegi Castle
  123. Nagaoka Castle
  124. Nagashima Castle
  125. Nagoya Castle
  126. Nakano Jin'ya
  127. Nakanojou Jin'ya
  128. Nakata Yashiki
  129. Nakazaki Yashiki
  130. Nanokaichi Jin'ya
  131. Nihonmatsu Castle
  132. Nijo Castle
  133. Nijoko Castle
  134. Nirasaki Jin'ya
  135. Nirayama Daikansho
  136. Nishio Castle
  137. Niwase Castle
  138. Nobeoka Castle
  139. Numata Castle
  140. Obama Castle
  141. Obama Domain Chamachi Battery
  142. Obama Domain Hachimanshita Battery
  143. Obama Domain Kamomegasaki Battery
  144. Obama Domain Kanegasaki Battery
  145. Obama Domain Kanzeyamachi Battery
  146. Obama Domain Kawasaki Battery
  147. Obama Domain Matsubara Battery
  148. Obama Domain Matsugashita Battery
  149. Obama Domain Oshirohama Battery
  150. Obama Domain Shuukouan'ura Battery
  151. Obama Domain Umiteura Battery
  152. Obata Jin'ya
  153. Obi Castle
  154. Odawara Castle
  155. Ogaki Castle
  156. Ogurayama Castle
  157. Ohmori Daikansho
  158. Ojima Jin'ya
  159. Oka Castle
  160. Okayama Castle
  161. Okazaki Castle
  162. Osaka Castle
  163. Oshi Castle
  164. Otaki Castle
  165. Ozu Castle
  166. Rokugawa Jin'ya
  167. Saga Castle
  168. Sagaki Jin'ya
  169. Sagara Castle
  170. Saiki Castle
  171. Sakura Castle
  172. Sakura Castle (Aichi)
  173. Saraki Jin'ya
  174. Sarushima Battery Island
  175. Sasayama Castle
  176. Sasayama Shuzan Daikansho
  177. Sekiyado Castle
  178. Sendai Castle
  179. Sengoku Yakata
  180. Shibata Castle
  181. Shichinohe Castle
  182. Shimabara Castle
  183. Shimizu Jin'ya
  184. Shinagawa Battery Islands
  185. Shingu Castle
  186. Shinshiro Castle
  187. Shiojiri Jin'ya
  188. Shirakawa Castle
  189. Shiroishi Castle
  190. Shiryokaku Fort
  191. Shishido Jin'ya
  192. Shuri Castle
  193. Sonobe Castle
  194. Sunpu Castle
  195. Suzaki Battery
  196. Tagayashi Yakata
  197. Takada Castle (Niigata)
  198. Takada Castle (Okayama)
  199. Takaino Jin'ya
  200. Takamatsu Castle
  201. Takamuro Yashiki
  202. Takaoka Castle
  203. Takasaki Castle
  204. Takashima Castle
  205. Takato Castle
  206. Takatori Castle
  207. Takatsuki Castle
  208. Takayama Jin'ya
  209. Tamaru Castle
  210. Tanabe Castle
  211. Tanabe Castle (Wakayama)
  212. Tanagura Castle
  213. Tanaka Castle
  214. Tanaka Tadamasa Yashiki
  215. Tanba Kameyama Castle
  216. Tanokuchi Jin'ya
  217. Tarui Castle
  218. Tatebayashi Castle
  219. Tatsuno Castle
  220. Tatsuoka Castle
  221. Tayasu Jin'ya
  222. Toba Castle
  223. Tokumi Jin'ya
  224. Tomioka Castle
  225. Tomioka Jin'ya
  226. Tottori Castle
  227. Toyama Castle
  228. Toyooka Jinya
  229. Tsu Castle
  230. Tsuchiura Castle
  231. Tsuwano Castle
  232. Tsuyama Castle
  233. Ueda Castle
  234. Ushiku Jinya
  235. Utsunomiya Castle
  236. Uwajima Castle
  237. Wakamiko Castle
  238. Wakayama Castle
  239. Yamagata Castle
  240. Yamaguchi Castle
  241. Yamaguchi Yashiki
  242. Yamamoto Jin'ya
  243. Yamato Koriyama Castle
  244. Yamura Jin'ya
  245. Yatsushiro Castle
  246. Yatsushiro Yashiki
  247. Yodo Castle
  248. Yokosuka Castle
  249. Yokote Castle
  250. Yonago Castle
  251. Yoshida Castle
  252. Yoshimizu Jinya
  253. Yunagaya Jin'ya
  254. Zeze Castle
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