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