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Ryugein Otamaya, The Mausoleum of Iyemitsu
Mt. Ogasayama lookout near Tamon Shrine
Floating Hut on the Ogasaike Pond
kara-hafu & kato-madoNATIONAL CULTURAL LANDMARK
The palace was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1854, so it was reconstructed by SUKEKATSU OTA, who was the lord of kakegawa castle at that time..
Although the OTA clan continued to use the castle, by 1869 it had fallen into ruin...
After it fell into ruin, the palace was appropriated by the military school of the TOKUGAWA family....
In 1890 it was designated a NATIONAL IMPORTANT CULTURAL LANDMARK.
The roof of the palace entrance was built in the MUKURIHAFU style.
Hafu means the triangular aprt of the roof formed by the sloping eaves..But hafu bending upward like the one in the palace entrance are called MUKURIHAFU....
