Geography of Himeji Castle

 its build on Himeyama hill
Himeji Castle (姫路城 Himeji-jō^?) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex located in Himeji, in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan


Akamatsu Norimura- was a Japanese samurai of the Akamatsu clan. Norimura constructed a fort on a                                         hill which later became the site for Himeji Castle
 Kuroda Yoshitaka- he was a chief strategist and an adviser to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.Shigetaka served                                     as a senior retainer of Kodera Masamoto, the lord of Himeji
 Toyotomi Hideyoshi- was a preeminent daimyo, warrior, general and politician of the 
                                     Sengoku             period^[1] who is regarded as Japan's second "great unifier.
 Tokugawa Ieyasu-  was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which                                          ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
 Ikeda Terumasa-  was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period.Terumasa was also known by the                                    nickname saigoku no shogun, or, ‘The Shogun of Western Japan’
 Honda Tadakatsu- was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, who ruled the 
                                 Kuwana                  Domain and then the Himeji Domain. He was the son                                              of Honda Tadakatsu.

Princess Sen- was the eldest daughter of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo. She was                                  born during the Warring-States period of Japanese history.