Sakura Castle (佐倉城
Sakura-jō) is located in the city of Sakura in Chiba Prefecture and was constructed on the 30-meter-high Kashima plateau. Due to its elaborate use of the natural topography it was an impregnable location surrounded by marshes and rivers.
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The map is based on Google Earth. The location of enclosures or others are my speculation, so they may not be correct.
Built on the unfinished remains of Kashima Castle that had been started by the Chiba clan in the
Sengoku Period, Doi Toshikatsu (土井利勝, 1573-1644), a high-ranking official in the
Tokugawa shogunate and advisor to the second shogun,
Hidetada, completed the castle in 1617 under the orders of Ieyasu himself. Thereafter, it served as one of the important...
