| | History of Tsuyama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Approximately 2000 years ago, wet paddy rice agriculture was introduced into the Tsuyama region. |
 | | Battles between competing warlords, each with absolute authority over his own landholdings and subjects, were frequent by the latter half of the 15th Century as this period developed into the age of civil wars. |
 | | After the abolition of Tokugawa shogunate in the late 19th Century, imperial rule was restored and the new Meiji government ordered the destruction of the castle. |
| www.tsuyama-ct.ac.jp /English/tsuyama/history.htm (489 words) |