Hamada Castle
{{short description|Castle ruins in Hamada, Japan}}
{{Infobox military installation
| name = Hamada Castle
| nativename-a={{lang|ja|浜田城}}
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| location =Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan
| image = Hamada castle sannomaru ishigaki1.JPG
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| caption = Stone wall of Sannomaru base
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| type = Mountaintop-style castle
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| ownership = Honda clan
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| condition = ruins
| built = 1620
| builder = Furuta Shigeharu
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| materials =Stone walls
| demolished = 1866
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| past_commanders =Furuta Shigeharu
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{{nihongo|Hamada Castle|浜田城|Hamada-jō}} is a castle structure in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.{{cite web|url=http://www.kankou-hamada.org/modules/guide/index.php?action=SpotView&spot_id=1070 |title=浜田城|publisher=浜田市観光協会 Official|language=ja|access-date=10 August 2019}}{{cite web|url= https://hamada400.jp/hamada_history/castle/ |title=浜田城|publisher=浜田開府400年|language=ja|access-date=10 August 2019}}
Current
The castle is now only ruins, with some stone walls and earthworks.{{cite web|url=https://kojodan.jp/castle/393/ |title=浜田城跡 |publisher=攻城団|language=ja|access-date=25 July 2019}} In 2017, the castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles.{{cite web|url=http://jokaku.jp/japan-top-100-castles/best-100-castles-of-japan-2nd-selection/|title=続日本100名城|date=29 November 2017|publisher=日本城郭協会|language=ja|access-date=25 July 2019|archive-date=8 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808090742/http://jokaku.jp/japan-top-100-castles/best-100-castles-of-japan-2nd-selection/|url-status=dead}}
Gokoku Shrine
{{Infobox religious building
| name = Hamada Gokoku Shrine
| native_name = 濱田護國神社
| religious_affiliation = Shinto
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| type = Gokoku shrine
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{{ill|Hamada Gokoku Shrine|ja|濱田護國神社}} is a Shinto shrine located in Japan. It is a Beppyo shrine, or a shrine that is particularly notable in a certain way with a significant history to it.{{Cite web |title=別表神社とは？御朱印めぐりに参考になる「別表神社一覧」とマップ {{!}} 開運戦隊ゴシュインジャー |url=https://jinja-gosyuin.com/beppyou/ |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=jinja-gosyuin.com}} It is a Gokoku Shrine, or a shrine dedicated to war dead. Such shrines were made to serve to enshrine the war dead, and they were all considered "branches" of Yasukuni Shrine. They were renamed from Shokonsha in 1939.{{Cite journal |last=TAKAYAMA |first=K. PETER |date=1990 |title=Enshrinement and Persistency of Japanese Religion |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23917081 |journal=Journal of Church and State |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=527–547 |doi=10.1093/jcs/32.3.527 |jstor=23917081 |issn=0021-969X|url-access=subscription }} It is located in the ruins of Hamada Castle.{{Cite web |title=Ruins of Hamada Castle |url=http://handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp/TravelDestinations/Chugoku/Hamada_Castle_E.html |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=handejapan19.html.xdomain.jp}}https://www.kankou-hamada.org.e.aew.hp.transer.com/guidepost/6214 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
See also
- Controversies surrounding Yasukuni Shrine
- Hero shrine
- Martial temple and Wen Wu temple
- National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine
- Eternal Spring Shrine
- Chinese Cultural Renaissance
- Ancestral shrine
- Gallant Garden
- Gokoku Shrines
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- Arlington National Cemetery
- Valhalla (home to the souls of fallen warriors in Scandinavian mythology)
- Walhalla Shrine (a hall of fame in Germany honoring "commendable and honorable Germans")
- Eternal Spring Shrine
- The common end of myriad good deeds
- Greek hero cult
References
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Literature
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- {{cite book |title=An Encyclopedia of Japanese Castles | last=De Lange |first=William |year=2021 |pages=600 pages|publisher=Toyo Press |location=Groningen |isbn=978-9492722300}}
{{Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles}}
Category:Castles in Shimane Prefecture