Ryozen castle site at Mt. Ryozen 360 degree single-node faststart
QTVR movie
福島県伊達市霊山町霊山 霊山城跡 360°QTVRムービー
Mt. Ryozen, Ryozen town, Date county, Fukushima prefecture, Japan
Camera : Nikon F5
Date : 25. October 1998
Movie drag direction : Horizontal
The Ryozenji Temple was founded by the priest, Jikaku Daishi in
859. and prospered as the center of mountain worship in the Tohoku
district. It was a complex of temple buildings at the top, priests'
residence and the Sanno shrine halfway up, ant the Fururyozen
relics.
Centuries passed and on January 8 in 1337, during the Nanbokucho
period. Kitabatake Akiie, govennor of Mutsu, moved the government
of the northern part of Japan from Taga to Ryozen Castle, showing
respect for the imperial Prince Noriyoshi ( later Emperor Go-Murakami
). This Ryozen Castle was Ryozen Temple which had been diverted
Murakami). Ryozen Castle is well-known as the place where Kitabatake
Akiie started westward on August 11 in the same year, being ordered
to attack the Shogun Ashikaga Takauji by Emperor Go-Daigo, in
August of 1347, surrounded by the Northern Court. Ryozen Castle
was burned to the around and surrendered. Today only the stone
foundation reminds us of that time.
"the Nanbokucho period : the period of the Northern and Southern
Courts from 1336 to 1392. Ashikaga Takauji was on the side of
the Northern Court and Emperor Go-Daigo was on the side of the
southern court, They were hostile to each other."
