Chidori Castle

     

It’s old postcard time again! This time around though, it’s not Ōsaka or Nagoya castle. Today’s vintage postcard is the totally bad-ass, Matsue Castle. A real favourite of mine.

I had some fun looking into the background of this postcard. This was mostly due to the discovery of the truly fantastic Matsue Postcard Museum website. The site is in Japanese but do have a look. Madly clicking away at stuff will most likely land you in a very interesting spot. So, it’s totally worth checking out.

The website was able to help me out with something I have almost always struggled with, with these old postcards; when it was produced. According to what has been printed on the back of the card, this particular one dates from between the seventh year of Taishō (1918) to the seventh year of Shōwa (1932).

Pictured is the bronze statue of Lord Naomasa Matsudaira who seems to be gazing up at Chidori Castle. Nowadays, Naomasa needs to strain his eyes a little harder as his statue has been moved several hundred metres south from its former location.

Chidori Castle and Matsudaira Naomasa statue

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  • Travis Seifman

    lol. Interesting. Poor Naomasa. He must be terribly confused.

    …

    Wait a minute. You had me fooled for a moment there, but then I googled to find out where Chidori was, and it would seem that Matsue-jô *is* Chidori castle. You cheeky bastard! ^_^

  • Anonymous

    I love a bit of confusion. Especially the unintended kind.

    Yes, Chidori castle is Matsue Castle. I’ve never been to to go for all that nick-name stuff. Maybe because I never had a cool one.

  • Shinichi HIRANO

    Thanks for uploading the nice pic.
    I was born in Matsue city 52 years ago. When I was a little kid, I used to play in the castle yard with my friends. The post card reminds me of good old days. Everything in the city has changed now, comparing from those of 45 years ago.
    Ray

  • Anonymous

    Thank you Shinichi, for your comment. It sounds like you made some great memories.