Takaya Castle

Japanese: 高屋城 - たかやじょう

A large medieval castle located in Furuichi, Habikino City, Osaka Prefecture. Its construction date is clear and there are many documents remaining. The castle's name first appears in an article from 1493 in the Daijoin Temple and Shrine Records (Daijoin Temple and Shrine Records) of Kofuku-ji Temple in Nara, but there is an article about its construction by Hatakeyama Yoshinari in 1479. It is thought that construction began in 1477 when Yoshinari captured the castles of the eastern army in Kawachi and took control of Kawachi. After the Onin War ended, it became the political center of Kawachi, and was the guardian of Kawachi except for the period when Kawachi was divided into two guardians and the base of the northern half of the province was moved to Iimori Castle (present-day Daito City), and it was repeatedly besieged and burned down. It lost its function as a guardian after Miyoshi Nagayoshi made Imori Castle his base in 1560. It was destroyed by Oda Nobunaga in 1575. The main castle was located near the Takaya Tsukiyama Tomb (designated as the tomb of Emperor Ankan) near the intersection of the Higashi-Kouya Highway and Nishi-Kouya Highway, and only Ninomaru in the center, Sannomaru to the south, and parts of the earthworks and moat remain.

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Japanese:

大阪府羽曳野(はびきの)市古市(ふるいち)にあった中世の大規模な城。築造年代が明らかで文献が豊富に残る。城名は奈良興福寺の記録《大乗院寺社雑事記(だいじょういんじしゃぞうじき)》の1493年の記事にみえるのが早いが，1479年の畠山義就(はたけやまよしなり)による築造に関する記事がある。着手は1477年義就が河内で東軍の諸城を攻略し河内を制した時と考えられる。応仁・文明の乱終結後河内の政治的中心となり，河内が半国守護２人に分割され，北半国の拠点が飯盛(いいもり)城（現大東市）に移った時期を除いて河内の守護所であり，包囲・炎上などを繰り返した。1560年三好長慶(みよしながよし)が飯盛城を本拠としてからは守護所の機能を失った。1575年織田信長により破却。東高野(ひがしこうや)街道と西高野街道の接点に近い高屋築山古墳（安閑天皇陵に治定）付近を本丸とし，中央に二の丸，南に三の丸，土塁や堀の一部が残る。

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