Okazaki Castle
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Okazaki Castle is a Japanese castle located in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Okazaki Castle was home to the Honda clan, daimyō of Okazaki Domain, but the castle is be
The reconstructed castle tower restored in 1959
Okazaki Flower Festival
Okazaki Flower Festival
Tokugawa Ieyasu Karakuri Clock Tower
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the t
Okazaki Castle
…the end of the Edo period, Okazaki Castle was home to the Honda clan, daimyō of Okazaki Domain, but the castle is better known for its association with Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Tokugawa clan. The castle was also known as "Tatsu-jō" (龍城). Saigo Tsugiyori built an earthen-walled fortification in the Myodaiji area of…
Portrait by Kanō Tan'yū
Tokugawa Ieyasu kao
Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu
ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Batogahara between Tokugawa clan against Ikkō-ikki movement in 1563–1564.