Nasu Kanda Castle

Nasu-Kanda Castle (那須神田城, Nasu-Kanda jō) was a Heian period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan.

[1] Nasu-Kanda Castle was built by Fujiwara no Sukeie in 1125 AD.

Fujiwara no Sukeie was the ancestor of the Nasu clan.

More of a large fortified manor than an actual castle, the structure had a rectangular layout 117 meters north-to-south by 66 meters east-to-west, and was surrounded by a high earthen rampart with a height of up to five meters and a water moat.

Most of the rampart on the eastern side was destroyed during the construction of a modern housing district, and parts of the western side are covered in rice paddies.