Mori Terumoto, a powerful daimyo, established this castle in 1590, naming the area Hiroshima and establishing the city around it. He was forced out of the castle when his side lost in the Battle of Sekigahara. The castle was given to Fukushima Masanori, who felt nostalgic for the days under Toyotomi's rule, which upset Tokugawa. A flood destroyed the castle in 1617, but Tokugawa did not give him permission to rebuild it. When he began reconstruction anyway, he was forced out of the castle. The castle served as a military facility in the Meiji Period, and was named a National Treasure until it was destroyed by the atomic bomb in 1945. The current reconstruction, mostly of concrete, dates to 1958.
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