Cultural Properties Buried at Kanazawa Castle
Most of the buildings at Kanazawa Castle have disappeared by now, because it has been over 100 years since the castle was closed. Yet a lot of cultural properties buried there can tell us about the era. There are a variety of items, such as stone walls and moats to show how the castle looked, as well as evidence of buildings having been rebuilt in the past, including roof tiles and ceramics. Remains have been found from properties spanning a long period of time, even from before the castle was built.
These cultural properties give valuable information which could never be learnt from literature. At the Gojukken Nagaya site, where the excavational examination took place before the reconstruction started, we learned how the stone walls were constructed, and also found the remains of an old Samurai house, which had been there before Gojukken Nagaya was built. In the excavational exam of the inside moat, several piers were found, which helped design the reconstructed moat. Besides these, we have learned a lot about such things as the transition of Kanazawa Castle, the functions and structures of each facility and the architectural skills used in old times. Other examples of cultural properties are an old moat from the early days of the castle, gold-leaf coated roof tiles, a huge staircase at Hon-maru, the remains of a blacksmith's forge at San-no-maru and so on.
These cultural properties buried at Kanazawa Castle play an important role as a rich source of information for us to examine the hidden history of Kanazawa Castle. |
Pier Foundation of Hashizume Bridge
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