NHK Special (General) will broadcast the second episode of the "Castles of the Sengoku Samurai" series from 9:00 PM on September 21st. On this day, the spotlight will be on Tokugawa Ieyasu and Nagoya Castle, titled "Tokugawa Ieyasu's Hidden Dreams in a Giant Castle." What was the "desire" hidden in a castle that was originally built for fighting?
Tokugawa Ieyasu aimed for a peaceful world. After winning the decisive Battle of Sekigahara, Ieyasu decided to build a gigantic fortress called Nagoya Castle, and tasked the outside lords who had once served the Toyotomi clan with building a stone wall stretching for a total of 8 kilometers.
This time, we used the latest technology called "Stone Wall BIM" to investigate in detail the shape and angles of the stacked stones. We found signs of a "certain change" occurring among the samurai who had devoted themselves to war... We got closer to the "desire" that Ieyasu had for the gigantic castle.
