Tango Province
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Tango Province was a province of Japan in the area of northern Kyoto Prefecture. Tango bordered on Tanba to the south, Tajima to the west, and Wakasa to the east. Its abbreviated form name was Tanshū.
Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Tango" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting Ama-no-Hashidate
Kono Jinja, ichinomiya of the province
Ruins of Tango Kokubun-ji
Tanabe Castle, also known as Maizuru Castle
Hosokawa Fujitaka
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Hosokawa Fujitaka, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai, was a Japanese daimyō and prominent samurai lord of the Sengoku period. A former senior retainer of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the fifteenth and final Ashikaga
Tango Province
…Muromachi period, the Yamana clan were shugo of Tango province, but they were supplanted by the Isshiki clan in 1392. The Isshiki ruled until replaced by Hosokawa Fujitaka in 1579, who constructed Tanabe Castle, also known as “Maizuru Castle” under orders of Oda Nobunaga. In 1600, the Hosokawa clan was transferred to…
Hosokawa Yusai
Hosokawa Fujitaka