Wadayama Castle (Omi)

History

Wadayamajō was a branch castle of Kannonjijō (Kannonji Castle) constructed by Rokkaku Yoshisuke in the middle 16th century, probably around 1560 in anticipation of Asai Nagamasa's invasion of Rokkaku territory. The castellan was Tanaka Daisuke. In 1568 Oda Nobunaga invaded Rokkaku territory and the defenders of Wadayamajō, which had a garrison of 6,000 troops, following the fall of Minosakuyamajō on the mountain across the plain to the south, ran away without a fight.

Visit Notes

Wadayamajō is a Sengoku period yamajiro (mountaintop castle) ruin with earthworks such as kuruwa (baileys), dorui (earthen ramparts), and umadashi (barbicans). Wadayamajō's ruins are obvious to a yamajiro fan, but there is another castle site on the same mountain of which there are much fewer ruins, and this other castle, called Wadayamakojō, is thought to predate Wadayamajō (see Wadayamako Castle (Shiga)).

Gallery

Dorui
Sub-bailey with dorui to left

Castle Profile
English Name	Wadayama Castle
Japanese Name	和田山城
Founder	Rokkaku Yoshisuke
Year Founded	c. 1560
Castle Type	Mountaintop
Castle Condition	Ruins only
Historical Period	Pre Edo Period
Artifacts	Dorui, Kuruwa, Umadashi
Features	trenches
Visitor Information
Access	Notogawa Sation on the Biwako Line; 40 minute walk
Visitor Information	24/7 free; mountain
Time Required	30 minutes
Location	Higashi-Ōmi, Shiga Prefecture
Coordinates	35° 10' 29.50" N, 136° 11' 26.66" E
Loading map... {"type":"TERRAIN","minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"types":["ROADMAP","SATELLITE","HYBRID","TERRAIN"],"mappingservice":"googlemaps","width":"auto","height":"200px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"Castlemarker.png","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"visitedicon":"","wmsoverlay":false,"zoom":6,"layers":[],"controls":[""],"zoomstyle":"DEFAULT","typestyle":"DEFAULT","autoinfowindows":false,"resizable":false,"kmlrezoom":false,"poi":true,"cluster":false,"clustergridsize":60,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clusteraveragecenter":true,"clusterminsize":2,"imageoverlays":[],"kml":[],"gkml":[],"searchmarkers":"","fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":false,"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":35.17486111111111,"lon":136.1907388888889,"icon":"../images/1/1e/Castlemarker.png"}]}
Admin
Added to Jcastle	2022
Contributor	ART
Admin Year Visited	Viewer Contributed
Friends of JCastle
Shiro Meguri
Jōkaku Hōrōki
Shirobito
Kojōdan
Masaki Shibata

2.00

(one vote)

Enable comment auto-refresher