Odawara Castle (小田原城 Odawara-jō?) is a landmark in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture. There are three basic types of municipalities in Japan: cities, towns and villages. is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. The city was founded on December 20, 1940. It was the stronghold of various daimyo during the Muromachi period of Japanese history. The ( were powerful territorial lords who ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings The Muromachi period ( Japanese: 室町時代 Muromachi-jidai, also known as the Muromachi era, the Muromachi bakufu, the Ashikaga era The written history of Japan begins with brief references in the 1st century AD Twenty-Four Histories, a collection of Chinese historical texts From 1495 onward, five generations of the Late Hōjō clan held the castle. The was one of the most powerful warrior clans in Japan in the Sengoku period and held domains primarily in the Kantō region [1] Odawara Castle had very strong defenses, because it was situated on a hill, surrounded by moats with water on the low side, and dry ditches on the hill side, with banks, walls and cliffs located all around the castle, enabled the defenders to repel attacks by the great warriors Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. is a city located in Kanagawa, Japan. The city was founded on December 20, 1940. was a Daimyo who ruled Echigo province in the Sengoku Period of Japan. ( December 1, 1521 &ndash May 13, 1573) of Shinano and Kai Provinces was a preeminent Daimyo or feudal lord However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took the castle in 1590, and awarded the holdings of the Hōjō to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who in turn installed the Okubo clan at Odawara. was the founder and first Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate The were a Samurai kin group which rose to prominence in the Sengoku period and the Edo period.
During the Edo period, Odawara's strategic location on the Tōkaidō, between mountainous Hakone and Sagami Bay, gave it great strategic importance. The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868 is a town in Japan, in Kanagawa Prefecture, in Ashigarashimo District, located on the eastern foot of Hakone Pass. Sagami Bay (相模湾 Sagami-wan) also known as the Sagami Gulf or Sagami Sea, lies south of Kanagawa Prefecture in Honshū, central As the home to Odawara-juku, the castle controlled the Tōkaidō between the Tokugawa headquarters at Edo and the stations west of Hakone, including Sumpu, Hamamatsu and Nagoya. was the ninth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in the present-day city of Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The was the most important of the Five Routes of the Edo period, connecting Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of literally bay - Door, " Estuary " edo once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is a City designated by government ordinance (a "designated city" is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and is the largest city in the prefecture is the third-largest incorporated city and the fourth most populous urban area in Japan.
Eventually, Odawara Castle was destroyed by Meiji government. However, present Odawara Castle was rebuilt in 1960. It serves as a museum and is designated as an important historical monument. Today, a reproduction of the castle stands high on a hill above Odawara. A castle is a defensive structure seen as one of the main symbols of the Middle Ages.
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- ^ Odawara Area Highlights. Ninomiya Sontoku (二宮 尊徳 born Ninomiya Kinjirō (二宮 金次郎 1787-1856 was a prominent 19th century Japanese agricultural leader Philosopher, Kanagawa Prefectural Tourist Association. Accessed December 10, 2007.
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