Suemori Castle

is a former

Japanese castle are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone. They evolved from the wooden stockades of earlier centuries, and came into their best-known form in the 16th century. Castles in Japan were built to guard important or strategic sites, such ...

located in

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

. It was originally outside the city of Nagoya in the countryside of the Owari Province. Lord

Oda Nobuhide was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and magistrate of the Sengoku period known as "Tiger of Owari" and also the father of Oda Nobunaga the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobuhide was a deputy ''shugo'' (Shugodai) of lower Owari Province and head of the ...

(1508-1549) built this castle in 1548. The following year, his third son

Oda Nobuyuki , also known as , was the son of Oda Nobuhide and younger brother of Oda Nobunaga, who lived during the Sengoku period of Japan. Nobuyuki conspired against his brother Nobunaga with the Hayashi clan (Owari), which Nobunaga viewed as treason. Nob ...

(d. 1557) became the castle's lord, but was defeated at the Battle of Inogahara, where he fought against his older brother

Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese ''daimyō'' and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku period. He is regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. Nobunaga was head of the very powerful Oda clan, and launched a war against other ''daimyō'' to unify ...

(1534-1582). It is assumed that the castle was subsequently abandoned in 1559 and fell into ruins. A stone

stelae A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), whe ...

marks the site of the castle. The area today is overgrown with trees. Located on the premises is the

Shiroyama Hachiman-gū , a Japanese name that means ''Castle Mountain'', may refer to: Places * Mount Shiroyama, Motegi, Tochigi, Japan * Mount Shiroyama (Kagoshima), Japan; the site of the Battle of Shiroyama * Shiroyama, Kanagawa, a town that is now merged into Mido ...

. The closest station by public transport is Motoyama Station on the

Higashiyama Line The is a rapid transit, subway line, which forms part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya, Aichi, Nagoya, Japan. Officially, the line is referred to as . It runs from Takabata Station, Takabata in Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya, Nakagawa Ward ...

and Meijo Line. Castles in Nagoya Former castles in Japan Ruined castles in Japan Oda clan {{japan-struct-stub