Yama

Yama encompasses the northern Aizu country around Lake Inawashiro, between wooded mountains and the Aizu basin. Inawashiro Castle stood above the lake as a stronghold of the local Inawashiro family. After the fighting of 1589 and their departure, Gamō Ujisato entered Aizu in 1590 and remodelled the castle. It remained an outlying fortress guarding the eastern approach to the Aizu domain.