declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:

> Doing some research at the moment on the 大給松平 clan. Has anyone
> been to (or at least know something about) the fortress mentioned in
> the subject line??? The site is occupied by a school these days, but
> I'd like to visit and see how much of the fortress is left. As always
> wish to read up before I drive there. (Almost) any language is fine.

Presumably you Googled and got this:

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~qb2t-nkns/tatuoka.htm

http://www.dynax.co.jp/sinsen/shinano/castle/csl_tatsuoka.html

http://homepage2.nifty.com/FBToulist/Route02/R020414.htm

http://www5f.biglobe.ne.jp/~shingen/joukannagano/tatuoka/tatuoka.html

http://joe.ifdef.jp/nagano/013tatsuoka.htm

http://www.geocities.jp/hanami_yagura/cas_g/other_cas/tatuoka/tatuoka_cas.html

http://www.j-history.jp/travel/trv106c/flame106c.html

... only a couple of which seem to be put up by people who know that 
something happened there in 1867.  The last one, for instance, but I 
noticed at least one other.

We live within 20 minutes walking distance from half a dozen 
Sengoku-jidai castle sites.  There were about three or four generations 
of the same daimyo family who were pretty prolific ... and seem to have 
given every son from jinan on down his very own hilltop, village, and 
surrounding hatake.  A good source for me has been:

http://otakesumiyo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

But the castle you are looking for information on seems to be one of the 
  ones he hasn't hit, yet.

CL