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Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Owari Province highlighted. Owari Province (尾張国, Owari no Kuni) was a province of Japan in the area that today forms the western half of Aichi Prefecture, including the modern city of Nagoya. [1] The province was created in 646. Owari bordered on Mikawa, Mino, and Ise Provinces. Owari and Mino ...
The Owari Kokubun-ji was founded in 741 as the provincial temple of Owari Province, and is located approximately 900 meters south of its modern incarnation. The site is located on the a natural levee on the left bank of the Miyake River, and the ruins of the provincial capital of the province are four kilometers to the north-northeast. The ...
Nagoya (名古屋市, Nagoya-shi, ⓘ) is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the fourth-most populous city in Japan, with a population of 2.3 million in 2020, and the principal city of the Chūkyō metropolitan area, which is the third-most populous metropolitan area in Japan with a population of 10.11 million. [3]
Places in the provinces of Owari and Mikawa around 1558 on the map of Aichi Prefecture. Places under the control of Oda Nobunaga are marked in red. After defeating Imagawa clan of Suruga in the battle of Muraki and capturing southern provincial capital of Kiyosu (both in 1554), Oda Nobunaga united the Southern Owari under his rule.
Komakiyama Castle is located on Mount Komaki, an isolated 86 m-high (282 ft) high hill in the center of the Nōbi Plain in central Owari Province. The isolation of the location meant that the castle had a good view in all directions.
In several waves of territorial consolidation, today's 47 prefectures were formed by the turn of the century. In many instances, these are contiguous with the ancient ritsuryō provinces of Japan. [1] Each prefecture's chief executive is a directly elected governor (知事, chiji).
Ichinomiya (一宮市, Ichinomiya-shi) is a city located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.The city is sometimes called Owarichinomiya to avoid confusion with other municipalities of the same name, including Ichinomiya (now part of the city of Toyokawa) and Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture.
At the time when the seventeen-year-old Oda Nobunaga inherited family estates (of the so-called Shibata branch of Oda family, though Shobata Castle, built before 1520 by his grandfather, was abandoned in 1538) in the southwestern part of Owari Province (around Nagoya Castle) in spring of 1552, the southern parts of the province were ruled by his cousins, Oda from Kiyosu Castle, and the eastern ...