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	Kanazawa, Ishikawa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanazawa literally means "marsh of gold": the name is said to derive from the legend of a peasant called Imohori Togoro who washed gold dust from potatoes into a well (known as Kinjo Reitaku).
		Kanazawa was once ruled by the Maeda family from 1583 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
		Kanazawa was one of the few major Japanese cities to be spared USAF fire bombing during World War II.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanazawa (707 words)

	Kanazawa-Jo
		Kanazawa is a famous "castle town" of Japan, so it was di rigeur to go see the local castle.
		Kanazawa castle is famous from the Edo period, when the Maeda family (starting with Maeda Toshiie) occupied the castle.
		Kanazawa was ruled by the Maeda family in the Edo period, and the founding Lord and Lady Maeda are celebrated in the region.
	www.stoneschool.com /Japan/Kanazawa/KanazawaJo.html (717 words)

	Kanazawa
		Kanazawa is the hub of Japan's Hokuriku region, which comprises the prefectures of Fukui, Ishikawa, Toyama, and Gifu.
		The main attraction in Kanazawa, however, is Kenrokuen, the sprawling hilltop garden that ranks as one of Japan's three greatest.
		The castle itself is gone, destroyed by fire, but the gate and its outer walls are reminders of how spectacular it must have been.
	www.intrepidtraveler.com /travels/kanazawa.html (1040 words)

	Kanazawa Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanazawa Castle in Japan was founded in 1583 when the Maeda family moved to Kanazawa.
		Much of the castle was destroyed in a fire in 1759 and again in 1881.
		What remains, including the 1788 Ishikawa Gate, is now part of Kanazawa Castle Park.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanazawa_Castle (79 words)

	Japanese castles
		The need for castles arouse after the central government's authority had weakened in the 15th century and Japan had fallen into the chaotic era of warring states (sengoku jidai).
		Unlike the earlier castles, they were built in the plains or on small hills in the plains, where they served as a region's administrative and military headquarters, and became the centers of "castle towns".
		The typical castle gate consists of two gates which are placed in a 90 degree angle to each other, creating a small inner yard which is heavily defended from all sides.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2296.html (502 words)

	Introduction
		Kanazawa escaped destruction during the second world war, and retains much of its heritage and the atmosphere of its glorious past.
		Among its best-known sights are the remains of Kanazawa Castle and the Kenrokuen Gardens.
		Kanazawa's wealth comes from a powerful family of feudal lords, the Maeda family, who built the castle and contributed generously to education and culture.
	www.nrcsa.com /nh_df/4719/4719index.html (624 words)

	Kanazawa Travel Guide
		Kanazawa's importance grew in the 15th century, when the powerful and militant Ikko sect established its new headquarters there after being chased out of Kyoto by the monks of Mt.Hiei.
		Consequently, parts of the old castle town, such as samurai, temple and pleasure districts, have survived in pretty good condition.
		Kanazawa is capital of Ishikawa Prefecture, a prefecture along the Sea of Japan.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e2167.html (150 words)

	Kanazawa
		Kanazawa is a castle town, founded officially in 1583 when the powerful Maeda clan took control from the militant Ikko Buddhist sect.
		Castle towns in the feudal era located temples and shrines in districts outside the city; Teramachi, literally ‘temple district,’ houses the many of the city’s shrines and temples, including the famous Myo-ryu-ji, or “Ninja-dera,” named for its numerous concealed tunnels, trapdoors and secret chambers.
		While Kanazawa has a population of approximately 450,000, it is hardly a small town.
	www.ghatravel.com /html/kanazawa.html (813 words)

	INCENTIVE DESTINATION JAPAN \| Kanazawa
		Kanazawa, which developed as the castle town at the heart of the million-goku domain, is a city with an air of traditions and history, reminiscent of the turbulent feudal time that lasted for 400 years.
		Kanazawa offers a multitude of attractions including stunning mountain / ocean views, nationally acclaimed spa resorts and delightful delicacies that use the freshest of ingredients.
		Kanazawa is the central city of the Hokuriku region.
	www.jnto.go.jp /MI/eng/incentive/kanazawa (243 words)

	Destinations Guide - Kanazawa
		Slightly off the beaten track, Kanazawa was until 150 years ago the 4th largest city in Japan, its wealth built on high rice production and long periods of peace.
		From the mid-16th century, Kanazawa was the seat of the Maeda clan who ruled the city and Prefecture of Ishikawa for nearly three centuries.
		Kanazawa is a look at the other side of Japanese city life, one where everything doesn’t happen at a hundred miles an hour and where people still have time to appreciate the finest elements of the Japanese tradition.
	www.insidejapantours.com /kanazawa.html (498 words)

	Wajima-Nuri/Ishikawa/Kanazawa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hence, the elegant and refined culture that developed in Kanazawa under Load Maeda's patronage is referred to as "Kaga Hyakumangoku(one million KOKU)".
		Kanazawa was the capital of Kaga-Han, where Lord Maeda located his Kanazawa-Castle, and is the capital of Ishikawa prefecture today.
		Kenroku-En, one of "Great Three Japanese gardens" in Japan, which used to be the private garden of Maeda's Kanazawa Castle, is located in the middle of Kanazawa-city.
	www.tangle.com /_wajima/ego/KANAZAWA.html (319 words)

	Japanese Language Courses in Japan
		Kanazawa, on the west coast of Honshu island, was founded towards the end of the 16th century and was one of the wealthiest castle towns in Japan during the Edo period.
		Kanazawa is a popular tourist city of historical and cultural interests.
		Excursion to Kanazawa castle, Japanese gardens, geisha quarters, samurai quarters, Mount Hakusan and Shirakawago and to the Noto Peninsula for example are offered on a regular basis.
	www.linguaserviceworldwide.com /japan.htm (1341 words)

	Encyclopedia of Japanese History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A famous garden / park in Kanazawa, Ishikawa-ken. The garden was once part of the Maeda family lands, situated near the castle.
		The “Siege” of Kōzuki Castle is a misnomer, as the castle was the site of successive sieges and attacks over a two-year period - 1577 to 1578.
		While Kōzuki Castle was under siege by the army of Mori, Hideyoshi himself returned with ten thousand soldiers to aid Amago in his defense of the castle.
	openhistory.org /jhdp/encyclopedia/k.html (3250 words)

	Kanazawa and the Eurocentres School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kanazawa is a medium-sized town on the "other" side of Japan, facing the Sea of Japan.
		It's a historic castle town, a ski resort in winter, and close to the beach in summer.
		It also gives you a good idea of how developed the bus system in even a small city like Kanazawa is. For a sense of scale, it took about 15 minutes to walk from the Rifare building to Katamachi.
	www.stoneschool.com /Japan/Kanazawa (272 words)

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		With a population of 440,000, Kanazawa is one of the largest cities along the coast of the Sea of Japan, and the center of the Ishikawa prefectural government.
		Kanazawa is full of charms that blend its old atmosphere with the new.
		It is well known as an ancient castle town and once was the headquarters of the Maeda clan, which was the most powerful feudal clan during the Edo Period.
	www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu /~editor/vol03no047_5.txt (913 words)

	The Final Showdown
		Three years after Oda Nobunaga's army attacked the Ikko Buddhist sect in Kanazawa, destroying their religious government and the Gobo temple, Lord Maeda Toshiie entered the city and built the Kanazawa Castle on the former temple site in 1583.
		The growing tension erupted into open fighting in July 1600, when Lord Tokugawa was drawn away from the Regent's Council at Osaka to defend his eastern domains from the potential threat of Lord Uesugi Kagekatsu, who was allied with the Ishida Mitsunari faction.
		The worst of the rainstorm had passed by the time Lord tokugawa's men began their march toward Sekigahara, but weather conditions were still so bad that Tokugawa's advance guard inadvertently walked into the rear guard of Ishida's Western forces marching in the same direction as they moved through the village of Tarui.
	www.koreanhistoryproject.org /Ket/C13/E1303.htm (2303 words)

	Fodor's Travel Guides \| Forums Messages
		The bus between Kanazawa and Shirakawago is seasonal and you will probably miss the start of the season by only a couple of days (bus schedule was valid starting April 4).
		Kanazawa is excellent, but the mountains were an important part of our trip.
		Hi we stayed in a ryokan in Kanazawa which was right in the middle of the city - a bus ride from the station - very easy to get to for two Aussies who could not speak a word of Japanese.
	www.fodors.com /forums/pgMessages.jsp?fid=27&tid=34577161&numresponses=15&start=0 (1988 words)

	Kanazawa News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kanazawa New Zealander resident Bruce Wilson a man with a long and international history in the dance world, is offering locals the chance to see his work in a show entitled Simply Dance.
		The most recommended of which is this Friday (the 3rd of October) wherein Kinoshita Shinnichi, certainly one of the top three Tsugaru Jamisen players on the country will be playing a free live accoustic show from 7 to 8.30.
		As part of the World Craft Forum 2003 in Kanazawa, there is a major event called (rather windily) the "International Conference of Cities Renowned for Arts And Crafts in Kanazawa" or ICCRACK for short.
	kctnews.blogspot.com (1827 words)

	kanazawa city
		Kanazawa is one of Japan's foremost castle towns.
		In Kanazawa,one is acutely aware of the changing seasons.Not only is Kanazawa's natural scenery a colorful delight year-round,but every seasonal change is so carefully celebrated in Kanazawa's traditional cuisine,decor and yearly events that one comes to feel as if there are many more than four seasons.
		Kanazawa's history began in 1546,when the Buddhist Ikko sect set up a religious government centered on a temple,which later became the site of Kanazawa castle.The Buddhists' power grew, and so did Kanazawa.Kanazawa was invaded in 1580,and following a turbulent period,was finally taken over by Maeda Toshiie,a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, in 1583.
	www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp /kanazawa_e/guide.htm (253 words)

	MatthewMeyer.net » Kanazawa Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When I finally made it to Kanazawa after an exhausting and very nervous many-hour-long train ride (since I had to be able to translate where the train said it was stopping next) I took a taxi, but the driver did not know English either.
		Kanazawa castle was such an interesting place; mostly intact, we were allowed to walk through its towers and halls in our socks.
		Kanazawa is very little-known to visitors, so it’s a perfect spot to see Japanese life with only a mild influence of Western living.
	blog.matthewmeyer.net /?cat=4 (8825 words)

	Cultural Properties Buried at Kanazawa Castle
		Most of the buildings at Kanazawa Castle have disappeared by now, because it has been over 100 years since the castle was closed.
		Other examples of cultural properties are an old moat from the early days of the castle, gold-leaf coated roof tiles, a huge staircase at Hon-maru, the remains of a flsmith's forge at San-no-maru and so on.
		These cultural properties buried at Kanazawa Castle play an important role as a rich source of information for us to examine the hidden history of Kanazawa Castle.
	www.pref.ishikawa.jp /siro-niwa/kanazawajou/johshi_e/maizou_e.html (266 words)

	BookLoons Reviews - Castles of the Samurai by Jennifer Mitchelhill
		In her Introduction, Jennifer Mitchelhill tells us about a blind peasant woman who sacrificed herself as a 'hitobashira' to stabilize a castle's walls (in exchange her son was to be made a samurai but that never happened).
		The roof of Kanazawa castle (built in 1858) was tiled in lead, which could be melted down for ammunition, if needed.
		Castle architecture is discussed, including the central 'tenshu', castle tower.
	www.bookloons.com /cgi-bin/Review.asp?bookid=3026 (482 words)

	Kanazawa Travel: Kanazawa Castle (Ishikawa Gate)
		From 1583 to the end of the Edo Period, Kanazawa Castle was the seat of the powerful Maeda clan, lords of Kaga, a feudal domain ranking second only to the Tokugawa possessions in terms of size and rice production.
		The castle burnt down a few times in its history, and the most recent fires of 1881 were survived only by the castle's Ishikawa Gate which dates from 1788.
		While the castle tower and other major buildings have not been reconstructed ever since, some minor castle structures can be found on the castle's former site which is now a pleasant public park.
	www.japan-guide.com /e/e4202.html (158 words)

	Roger L. Simon: On the Nakasendo Trail
		Kanazawa castle is located on a hill near the center of town.
		All that is left of the original castle is the gate and the walls but they have recently restored one of the buildings using traditional materials and joinery techniques (no nails).
		Out of the main castle gate and across a bridge is Kenrokuen, one of the three most highly regarded landscape gardens in Japan.
	www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/08/on_the_nakasend.php (1873 words)

	Learn more about List of castles in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Learn more about List of castles in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		The List of castles is a link page for any castle in the sense of a fortified building.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_castles.html (119 words)

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		There, I went straight to Kanazawa Castle, which I discovered was a little different than most castles in Japan.
		To get to the castle, you walk through one of the supposedly 3 best gardens in Japan (whose tranquility, some might say, is marginally lost by the many bullhorn-touting Japanese tour guides describing the beauty of the garden), over a nice bridge, and through a perfectly preserved gate.
		Most castles in Japan have been destroyed at least once by war, but not this one.
	www.micahworld.com /travels/japan.shtml (2190 words)

	Kanazawa Castle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kanazawa Castle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Kanazawa Castle was founded when the Maeda family moved to Kanazawa.
		This article about a Asian building or structure is a stub.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Kanazawa_Castle (84 words)

	Japanese Homemaking, Interior Design, and Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Castle of the Ukita clan, Okayama, is one of the most beautiful forts in Japan, and could be taken as a specimen of harmonious local architectural job.
		The Ueno castle, built by Oda Nobunaga's Captain Todo Takatora, is a no-nonsense stronghold -- nearly as spartan as Tokugawa clan's castles.
		Toyotomi Hideyoshi's castle of Nagahama is another example of the simplest of such buildings; everything was designed in functionalist spirit.
	www.geocities.com /nobukaze23/ie2.htm (799 words)

	GeoPassage: Japan: West: Kanazawa, Honshu
		The Maeda family kept control of the city until the end of the feudal system in 1850 and they fostered Kanazawa's traditional crafts as well as introducing Zen Buddhism and the associated arts such as the Tea Ceremony.
		Paulownia carving, and the Washi, fine paper made in the mountain villages behind Kanazawa are also crafts that have been taken to high standards of excellence by generations of crafters.
		Kanazawa, the biggest city in the Hokuriku region has a population of 450,000, and is a castle town that was ruled over by the Maeda family for three centuries after the first lord Toshiie Maeda entered Kanazawa Castle in 1583.
	japan.geopassage.com /city.asp?cityID=4 (286 words)

	Ishikawa hotels: Kanazawa Excel Hotel Tokyu, Ishikawa, Japan. Hotel description, reviews, deals from www.asiahotels.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Equipped with first-rate facilities and hospitable service, Kanazawa Tokyu conveys the tranquility of a traditional Japanese city.
		Standing in the centre of the splendid city of Kanazawa, in the midst of the cheerful and bustling area of Kohrinbo, the hotel is easily accessible and perfect for sightseeing, shopping and business.
		Kanazawa Station on the JR Hokuriku Main Line is an 8-minute drive.
	www.asiahotels.com /hotelinfo/Kanazawa_Tokyu_Hotel (441 words)

	Ishikawa history
		In 1583 Toshiie received Kanazawa city and a part of Ishikawa Gun for his loyal service to Hideyoshi to whom he had become a close friend.
		He then moved from Nanao castle to Kanazawa and became the first Lord of Kaga.
		Toshiharu 1st Lord of Daishoji died on April 21 1660 at the age of 43 and was succeeded by Toshiaki (1637-1692).Toshiaki, 2nd lord of Daishoji Han was succeeded by Toshinao (1672-1710).
	www.gbouvier.com /ishi.htm (2290 words)

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