History of the Sasayama ruined castle

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History of the Sasayama ruined castle
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In order for Ieyasu Tokugawa whom Seki defeated by the battle of the field to make the Toyotomi army of Osaka Castle divide [ ruined castle / Sasayama ] with the daimyo of western part of Japan at first, It is said that it is the beginning of the Sasayama castle which made Sasayama of the important place of traffic build a castle. Seemingly, construction of a castle was the rush work of starting in 1609 and ending in December of the year. Although the Sasayama castle is a comparatively new castle built in early stages of the Edo period, a castle tower does not exist. Since the music cost daimyo whom the Sasayama castle had from generation to generation as an important point of defence of western part of Japan is a daimyo with a castle, It is said that the castle tower did not exist in the Sasayama castle from the first with what although it cannot necessarily have been burned down especially by war fire. It is said that the intention of Ieyasu Tokugawa of a battle principle was committing it. The first Sasayama daimyos with a castle are one of Ieyasu's children by birth, and Matsudaira Yasushige.