Nohime's Room

While I was in Gifu Castle Park in the early spring, I found many new landmarks.  One of them was the location of the room of Nobunaga's wife Nohime.  It was on the second floor of the mansion.  From the picture above, the computer graphic replica of her room is gorgeous.  The Portuguese missionary Luis Frois did describe her room.

They Came to Japan An Anthology of European Reports on Japan 1543-1640.  Michael Cooper, p. 133.

"The first floor contains the apartments and chambers of the queen and her ladies-in-waiting, and these rooms are even finer than those on the ground floor.  All of them are hung with brocade tapestries, and there are many balconies, some overlooking the city, others facing the open country with all the music and beauty of birds that you could desire in Japan."

Nobunaga no tame!