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• Han
  ...tative, the ''[[Kyoto shoshidai]]'', who oversaw the administration of the city). The [[Niwa clan]], meanwhile, served as ''osae'' against the northern pro ...and the territories of [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]], [[Choshu han|Chôshû]], and Kaga combined being home to fully 1/12th of Japan's population in the 1860s, eve
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• Tokyo
  ...governor, Tôkyô-to (東京都, Tokyo Metropolis) is not officially considered a "city," but the 23 special wards (''tokubetsu ku'') and 39 additional municipalit ...d the seat of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] from [[1603]] until [[1868]], the city was formally renamed Tokyo ("Eastern Capital") on 1868/7/17, and became the
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• Sankin kotai
  ...y six months; seven clans spent the 2nd month through the 8th month in the city, and another seven clans spent the 8th month through the 12th month there. ...men to Edo in [[1635]], but only around 500-600 on many other occasions. [[Kaga han]] occasionally brought as many as 2,500 men to Edo. These numbers, howe
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• Edo castle
  ...above sea level, it was one of the tallest (highest) sights visible in the city - rivaled only by [[Mt. Fuji]].<ref name=guth/> The castle suffered severe ...in the north, facing south, much as the Chinese emperor did at [[Forbidden City|imperial palaces in China]].<ref>The shogun sat in the upper ''dan'', at th
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• Important Cultural Properties
  **Akamon ("Red Gate"), former gate of the [[Kaga Edo mansion]] (Hongô campus) *[[Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts]]:
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• Gempei War
  ...re worrisome even then Yoritomo. A host departed from Kyoto in May, and in Kaga Province split up. One force, under Tomomori, would advance to the north an ...Island, and landed on the NE coast of Shikoku, in the region of Tokushima City, a distance of about 100 km.</ref> and set out for Yashima, some thirty mil
  27 KB (4,509 words) - 12:18, 18 August 2021
• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  ...being [[Shibata Katsuie]], for some time involved in subduing Echizen and Kaga). Hideyoshi's first acquisitions were [[Himeji castle|Himeji]], [[Kozuki ca ...ll. Hideyoshi's official patent of investiture survives today in the Osaka City Museum, while several robes believed to date to this investiture ceremony s
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• Oda Nobunaga
  ...e of the Honganji, a war of extermination aimed at the Ikko of Echizen and Kaga, and a showdown with the Takeda. The last would culminate in the bloody str ...ved to control the minting and exchange of coins, and brought the merchant city of Sakai under his influence, which in time proved to be worth it's weight
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