On the same site as Nagono-jô castle, built at the beginning of the 16th century and destroyed in 1532, where ODA Nobunaga, one of the so-called “three unifiers”, was born. TOKUGAWA Ieyasu had one of Japan’s strongest fortresses rebuilt for his son Yoshinao in Nagoya by 1612. Nagoya-jô served as the residence of the OWARI clan, a branch family of the TOKUGAWA, until the end of the feudal period (1868). The fortress was almost completely destroyed in 1945 during the Second World War – apart from the three corner towers. The main tower (tenshukan) was reconstructed between 1955 and 1959.
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