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Though natural hot springs, and the bathing facilities associated with them, could be found farther afield, it seems that up until the Edo period, Kyoto and the so-called "Home Provinces" or [[Kinai]] were the chief center of activity for public and private baths. Lee Butler notes that it was only when the political/military action of the [[Sengoku period]] came to be more focused on Kyoto after [[1568]] that the samurai class engagement in bathing begins to appear in written sources.

Though natural hot springs, and the bathing facilities associated with them, could be found farther afield, it seems that up until the Edo period, Kyoto and the so-called "Home Provinces" or [[Kinai]] were the chief center of activity for public and private baths. Lee Butler notes that it was only when the political/military action of the [[Sengoku period]] came to be more focused on Kyoto after [[1568]] that the samurai class engagement in bathing begins to appear in written sources.

[[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Akechi castle]] did not include bathing facilities, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] included a steam bath in his [[Jurakudai]], which was then moved to [[Nishi Honganji]] when the Jurakudai was demolished.

[[Oda Nobunaga]]'s [[Azuchi castle]] did not include bathing facilities, but [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] included a steam bath in his [[Jurakutei]], which was then moved to [[Nishi Honganji]] when the Jurakutei was demolished.

==Edo Period==

==Edo Period==