@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social
2026-08-06 03:30 UTC
Hiroshima-jō (広島城), also known as Ri-jō (鯉城 'Carp Castle'), was built between 1592-1599 by Mōri Terumoto (毛利輝元).
Mōri sided against Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康) at the Battle of Sekigahara (関ヶ原の戦い), and having lost, abandoned the castle in 1600.
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@camelliakyoto@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 03:45
Fukushima Masanori (福島正則) became lord, but was replaced by Asano Nagaakira (浅野長晟) when he repaired the castle (after a flood) without bakufu permission in 1619. The atomic blast likely destroyed the original castle's lower pillars and it collapsed. It was rebuilt in 1958.