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 Info and facts on 'Settsu Province'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Osaka (Port city on southern Honshu on Osaka Bay; a commercial and industrial center of Japan) and Osaka Castle (additional info and facts about Osaka Castle) were the main center of the province.
During the Sengoku period (additional info and facts about Sengoku period), the Miyoshi clan ruled Settsu and its neighbors, Izumi (additional info and facts about Izumi) and Kawachi (additional info and facts about Kawachi), until they were conquered by Oda Nobunaga (additional info and facts about Oda Nobunaga).
The provinces were ruled subsequently by Toyotomi Hideyoshi (additional info and facts about Toyotomi Hideyoshi).
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 Encyclopedia: Settsu Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Oda Nobunaga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Son of Oda Nobuhide, a minor warlord with meager land holdings in Owari province, Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest to eventually conquer most of Japan before his untimely death in 1582.
Militarily, Nobunaga's revolutionary dreaming not only changed the way war was fought in Japan, but also in turn made one of the most modernized forces in the world at that time.
Defeats invading daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto, ruler of the Mikawa (eastern Aichi prefecture), Suruga (western Shizuoka prefecture), and Totomi (eastern Shizuoka) provinces.
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 Settsu Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Osaka and Osaka Castle were the main center of the province.
During the Sengoku period, the Miyoshi clan ruled Settsu and its neighbors, Izumi and Kawachi, until they were conquered by Oda Nobunaga.
The provinces were ruled subsequently by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
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 Oda Nobunaga - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 1534, Nobunaga was born to regional daimyo Oda Nobuhide in the Shobata Castle.
In a political manoeuvre, Hirate Masahide sent a proposal to the Oda clan's rival daimyo in Mino province, Saito Dosan, to have Nobunaga marry Dosan's daughter, Nohime.
In 1578, the Azuchi Castle in the Omi province was completed, an impressive and extravagantly decorated castle that shocked European missionaries and ordinary courtiers alike.
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 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Rennyo the Restorer
The persecutions and at times outright confrontations this brought on involved Rennyo in one struggle after another, with the result there was nowhere he could take haven permanently, and throughout his life he was forced to move constantly from place to place.
The move is significant, for the province is where Rennyo would establish his first group of loyal followers among the people of Kanegamori, and it was here that he first began to develop his particular style of propagation.
Among the temples he established are: Kozen-ji, Deguchi, Kawachi province, installing Kojun (1474-1497) as resident minister; Kyogyo-ji; Shinsho-in,* Kai-no-ura, Izumi, with Shinsho-ji Joson as resident minister.
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Some intermarry [with people from outer provinces], and others engage in agriculture or commerce and are no different from the people in the provinc'es.
When a newly appointed governor travels to the province to which he is assigned, some of his roto and other followers either rob things from other persons or engage in quarrels among themselves.
Following the distruction of the Ichinotani fortification in Settsu Province in the Second Month, members of the Heike have been plundering the various provinces in the west, and Genji troops have been sent into the region to check the Heike.
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 Settsu Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
MAGAZINES Film Criticism 3/22/2005 Reider, Noriko T. origin of the term, Itsubun Settsu Fudoki (a missing writing from the Topography of Settu Province, known from other literary...
He was born in the old province of Settsu in 1552 and controlled the...
The regents of Hideyoshi's son soon quarreled, and when Ishida Mitsunari lost the Battle of Sekigahara, the area was given to Tokugawa relatives.
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 Oda Clan Timeline
In the late fall, Nobunaga invades the Kitabatake domain in Settsu, his efforts aided by a secret pact with Kotsukuri Tomomasa, a younger brother of daimyo Kitabatake Tomomori (not be confused with Kanbe Tomomori, already an Oda vassal.) The Oda surround Anotsu Castle.
In the meantime, the ikko of Echizen rebel and kill Asakura Kageakira, one of Nobunaga’s governors in that province.
Araki Murashige, lord of Itami Castle in Settsu Province, rebels against the Oda for reasons unclear and resists stoutly.
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In 1508, when Ouchi Yoshioki marched his armies into Kyoto having Ashikaga Yoshiki (Ashikaga Yoshitane) who was the former shogun and had escaped to Suo Province as his boss, Takakuni conspired with them and purged the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshizumi and Sumimoto to Omi Province.
In addtion, he also held the post of Shugo of Settsu Province, Tamba Province, Sanuki Province and Tosa Province.
In 1531, hiding in a store room for alcoholic beverage at Amagasaki, Settsu Province, he was detected and committed suicide.
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Iki is an island between Hizen Province and the island of Tsushima.
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Izumi bordered on Kawachi, Kii, and Settsu Provinces.
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 Viewing Japanese Prints: Mu Tamagawa
The subject of Mu Tamagawa might have developed as a response to the building of the great aqueduct to draw water from the Tamagawa in Musashi, began in 1652 and completed in 1654, while the iconography of the six Tamagawa was possibly the result of creating decorations for Edo Castle to commemorate the project.
It bears the title 'Settsu Kinuta' ("Fulling Block in Settsu Province") and is from the series 'Shokoku mu Tamagawa' ("Six Jewel Rivers in the Provinces"), issued in 1857 by Marukyû (Maru-ya Kyûshirô), whose seal is in the lower left margin.
It is titled 'Settsu tôi no Tamagawa' ("Fulling Block, Jewel River, Settsu Province") and the series has the same title as the previous example, 'Shokoku mu Tamagawa' ("Six Jewel Rivers in the Provinces").
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 Sengoku Period
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 Settsu Province - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Settsu Province - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Map of Japanese provinces with Settsu Province highlighted
Settsu province (摂津国, Settsu no kuni), Tsu province (津国, Tsu no kuni), or Sesshu (摂州, Sesshū) was a province of Japan, which today comprises the eastern part of Hyogo Prefecture and the northern part of Osaka Prefecture.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Oda Nobutaka   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
At Tomida of Settsu Province, Nobutaka joined Hashiba Hideyoshi who had turned back as well and fought at battle of Yamazaki.
Yet despite having been present to avenge for his father, at the meeting to determine the next and future head of Oda clan in Kiyosu Castle, Nobutaka was left out of discussion and Sanposhi became the head of clan.
He gained Mino Province where the eldest son, Oda Nobutada had ruled before his death by Mitsuhide, but this was still far short of what he had hoped for.
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 Oda Nobunaga Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Militarily, Nobunaga's revolutionary thinking not only changed the way war was fought in Japan, but also in turn made one of the most modernized forces in the world at that time.
Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the combined forces of daimyos Asakura Yoshikage and Asai Nagamasa.
Nobunaga falls in coup (Honnouji no Hen) by retainer Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnou Temple, Kyoto.
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 Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Held the rank of admiral when he was shot down by American fighters in 1943.
A province in the area that is today Nara Prefecture.
Yamato bordered on Iga, Ise, Kawachi, Kii, and Yamashiro Provinces.
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 Settsu Province
Settsu (摂津国; -no kuni) or Sesshu (摂州 sesshū) was a
province of Japan, which today composes the eastern part of Hyogo Prefecture and the northern part of Osaka Prefecture.
During the Sengoku period, the Miyoshi clan ruled Settsu and its neighbors, Izumi and
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Kitagawa Utamaro, The Tama River of Koya in Kii Province, 1802 - 1805
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Kitagawa Utamaro, The Tama River of Mishima in Settsu Province, 1802 - 1805
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 Izumi Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
human qualities, not the province of one culture.
Izumi (和泉国;; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan, which today composes the south-western part of Osaka prefecture (and not including the city itself).
Izumi included the large seaport of Sakai, and was usually held by whoever ruled Osaka castle and Settsu Province.
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 Contest Entry- Oda Nobunga by Kerushi - Fanart Central   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Oda Nobunaga, born in 1534, was the son of a minor warlord who owned a small portion of land in the Owari Province.
In 1549, Nobunaga married the daughter of Saito Dosan, the daimyo of Mino Province, an arranged marriage for the Oda's political benefit.
Nobunaga conquered the Settsu Province in 1579 and also gained the Bizen and Mimasaka Provinces.
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 Settsu, Osaka - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Settsu, Osaka - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Settsu (摂津市; -shi) is a city located in Osaka, Japan.
This page was last modified 21:26, 5 May 2005.
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