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unusual facts about Odawara



FUJIC

Used extensively for two years at the Fuji factory in Odawara, it was given later to Waseda University before taking up residence in the National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo.

Ishida Station

Aikō-Ishida Station, a railway station in Kanagawa, on the Odakyū Odawara Line

Ōkubo Tadamasu

This was followed by the Hōei eruption of Mount Fuji in December, with volcanic ash raining on Edo and Odawara and repeated earthquakes.

Siege of Fukazawa

Having burned the town of Odawara surrounding the Hōjō home castle two years earlier, he laid siege to a number of other Hōjō holdings in the surrounding provinces, including Fukazawa, in Suruga province.

Siege of Hachigata

The Siege of Hachigata is the name of two sieges of Hachigata Castle, a satellite castle of the Hōjō clan's Odawara Castle, which was besieged twice, both times in advance of an attack on Odawara.

Tadazane

Ōkubo Tadazane (1782–1837), the 7th daimyō of Odawara Domain in Sagami Province in mid-Edo period Japan

Taki-no Castle

In 1546, the Hojo of Odawara took control and in 1569 possession passed to the Takeda.


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