is a Japanese castle located in Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tateyama Castle was home to the Ōoka clan, daimyō of Iwatsuki Domain, however the castle dates from the Muromachi period and was inhabited by many samurai lords over its history. During the Edo period, the name of the castle was written as “岩付城”. It was also known as or . The site of the castle is a Saitama Prefectural Historic Monument. Situation The castle was located in the Kantō Plain near the northern border of former Musashi Province, and made use of a bend in the former location of the Arakawa River as part of its defenses to the north and east, and a swamp to the west and south. Large scale anti-flood construction diverted the main flow of the Arakawa River in the mid-Edo period, and the current location of the castle is some distance from the modern-day river. The main bailey, second enclosure and third enclosure were surrounded by very wide swampy moats, with the castle town located to the southwest. History The castle was built in the early Muromachi period by Narita Jikosai Tosho. For a long time it was believed the castle was built by Ōta Dōkan. But new source was found and it turns out that the castle was built by Narita Jikosai Tosho. In 1478 to protect the southern frontier of the Kantō kubō. In any event, the Ōta clan was firmly ensconced at Iwatsuki by 1522, and changed their allegiance to the increasingly powerful Odawara Hōjō following the Siege of Kawagoe Castle in 1546, which all but destroyed Uesugi power in the Kantō region. However, when Uesugi Kenshin invaded the Kantō area from the north in 1560, Ōta Sukemasa switched back his allegiance to the Uesugi. However, once Kenshin withdraw his armies, the Odawara Hōjō quickly regained their lost territories. Ōta Sukemasa refused to submit, and in 1564 called upon the Satomi clan for assistance. However, in his absence, his son Ōta Ujitsuke betrayed him and surrendered Iwatsuki Castle to the Odawara Hōjō. Following the death of Ōta Ujitsuke in 1567, the Odawara Hōjō requisitioned Iwatsuki Castle for their own use, and rebuilt the defenses extensively with a huge system of earthen walls and deep moats enclosing an area of over a square kilometer as one of the largest and most powerful strongholds in