558-2 Takamatsu, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Access to Bitchu Takamatsu Castle
About 10 minutes walk from JR Bitchu Takamatsu Station.
HISTORYAbout Bitchu Takamatsu Castle
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Battle of Bitchu Takamatsu CastleKuroda Kanbei's water attack
There are various ways to attack a castle, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi is said to have favored the "water attack." Among them, the "Three Great Water Attacks in Japan" and one of Hideyoshi's three great castle sieges is the Bitchu Takamatsu attack that took place in Tensho 10 (1582).
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Toyotomi HideyoshiThe most successful person in the Sengoku period
The late Muromachi period was a time when the world was in turmoil and was called the Warring States period. During the Sengoku period, there was a hero, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose from the dead and unified the country. Hideyoshi served Oda Nobunaga, distinguished himself from small items that could not be called samurai, and became an influential member of the Oda family.