Otaki Castle 大多喜城 |Admin's Rating||★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆| |Location||Otaki,
Chiba Pref.| |Access||Otaki Sta. (Isumi Tetsudo Line); 15 min
walk| |Website||Chiba Prefectural Sonan Museum| |Visited||June
20, 2009| |Notes||The main keep is a typical local museum with
some historical artifacts including a small collection of armor
and swords. The original yakuimon gate is on the school grounds
next to the castle. Unfortunately, there was some festival or
event going on that day so I couldn't get in to see it.|
|History||The original Otaki Castle was built in the early
1500's near the current castle and may have included part of the
current Otaki Castle grounds. In 1590, after Tokugawa Ieyasu
resettled in Edo, he stationed his retainer Honda Tadakatsu in
Otaki to help control the power of the Satomi in this area.
Honda Tadakatsu built the Otaki Castle we see today. Otaki
castle was ruled by three Honda lords, and then the Abe, Aoyama,
and Inagaki before Marsudaira Masahisa became lord in 1703. His
descendents controlled Otaki