tenshu-kaku

Updated: June 3, 2025

Nobunaga's castle is stated by some historians to have been partially attributable to Christianity, but this theory seems to rest solely upon the fact that the central tower was known as Tenshu-kaku, or the "tower of the lord of Heaven." The cost of constructing this colossal edifice was very heavy, and funds had to be collected from the whole of the eleven provinces then under Nobunaga's sway.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era