It is said that Yoshiaki KATO who resided at the Angolpo Castle and Yasuharu WAKISAKA and some other Daimyo who came back from the Korean Peninsula adopted the nobori-ishigaki method when constructing and renovating castles, but many castles were demolished after Ikkoku Ichijo Rei (Law of One Castle per Province) or around the Meiji Restoration, and the history of nobori-ishigaki is not fully understood yet; locations in which they were constructed.
安骨浦城にいた加藤嘉明や脇坂安治など朝鮮半島から帰国した大名が、国内での築城や改修の際、その手法を用いたとされるが、一国一城令や明治維新前後に破却された城郭が多く、登り石垣の歴史的過程については、築かれた箇所などを含め、まだ充分に解明されていない。