Ieyasu Letter before the Sekigahara Battle First Public Show Shizuoka Oct. 8 18:43
A letter from Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had ruled the Kanto region about 400 years ago, asked the survivors of the lord of the castle, who died of illness, not to neglect the rule of the country.
The letter was published in the 5th year of Keicho = 1600 AD when Ikuyasu Tokugawa ruled Kanto away from the current city center of Shizuoka City under the order of Hideyoshi Toyotomi.
In response to the death of Mr. Kazu Nakamura, the lord of the Sunpu Castle, he was sent to Nakamura's younger brothers and asked them not to neglect the control of the country or the corps.
A copy of the letter has been known so far, but from the original it was newly found that Mitsunari Ishida was sent on July 27, just after he raised his troops to defeat Ieyasu.
Ieyasu had the intent to maintain his power in a tense situation before the Sekigahara battle in September of the same year, with the belief that the survivors of Nakamura would not be on their side. It has been.
Mikihiro Inamori of Shizuoka City's History and Culture Division says, “This is a valuable letter that shows the position of Sunpu for Ieyasu's life.”
This letter is open from 8th to 4th of next month at the Hijijisaru Yagura in the southwest of Sunpu Castle Park in Kashiwa-ku, Shizuoka, except Mondays on weekdays.