https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_Castle
Following the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the castle was expanded and modernized with water moats connecting to the sea and stone facing on its formerly earthen ramparts. Yokosuka Castle was noteworthy in that it used rounded boulders from the Tenryū Riverin the walls of its moats, instead of cut stone. The tenshu was a four-story, three-roof structure. [2]
The castle passed through a number of fudai daimyō clans before coming under the control of the Nishio clan in 1682, under whose control it remained until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
The keep was destroyed in an earthquake in 1707, and was not rebuilt. Following the Meiji restoration, all remaining building were destroyed except for one gate from the Ni-no-maru Bailey which was preserved at the temple of Senyō-ji in Yokosuka, a portion of the daimyō's palace, which was transferred to the temple of Yusan-ji nearby Fukuroi city.[2]Today, a portion of the moats and earthen walls remain, and a local history museum has been built within the site of the former main bailey.
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