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Nishikawa Castle, the Glossary

was a branch castle of the Saigo Clan in the Mikawa region during the Age of Warring States in Japan.^[1]

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Castles in Aichi Prefecture

Aichi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.

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Akiyama Nobutomo

was a samurai during the Sengoku period in Japan.

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Ashigaru

were infantry employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan.

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Battle of Nagashino

The was a famous battle in Japanese history, fought in 1575 at Nagashino in Mikawa Province (present-day Nagashino, Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture).

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Castanea crenata

Castanea crenata, the Japanese chestnut or Korean chestnut, is a species of chestnut native to Japan and Korea.

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Castle

A castle is a type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Chorography

Chorography (from χῶρος khōros, "place" and γράφειν graphein, "to write") is the art of describing or mapping a region or district, and by extension such a description or map.

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Cryptomeria

Cryptomeria (literally "hidden parts") is a monotypic genus of conifer in the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Defensive wall

A defensive wall is a fortification usually used to protect a city, town or other settlement from potential aggressors.

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Erythronium japonicum, known as Asian fawn lily, Oriental fawn lily, Japanese fawn lily is a pink-flowered species trout lily, belonging to the Lily family and native to Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East (Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands) and northeastern China (Jilin and Liaoning).

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Imagawa clan

was a Japanese samurai clan that claimed descent from the Seiwa Genji by way of the Kawachi Genji.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Japanese castle

are fortresses constructed primarily of wood and stone.

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Kanji

are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.

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Kantō region

The is a geographical region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan.

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Lady Saigō

Lady Saigō (西郷局 or 西郷の局, 1552 – 1 July 1589), also known as Oai, was one of the concubines of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the samurai lord who unified Japan at the end of the sixteenth century and then ruled as shōgun. Nishikawa Castle and Lady Saigō are Tokugawa clan.

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Later Hōjō clan

The was one of the most powerful samurai families in Japan in the Sengoku period and held domains primarily in the Kantō region.

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Makino clan

The are a daimyō branch of the samurai Minamoto clan in Edo period Japan.

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Matsudaira clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. Nishikawa Castle and Matsudaira clan are Tokugawa clan.

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Matsudaira Kiyoyasu

was the 7th lord over the Matsudaira clan during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan.

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Mikawa Province

was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture.

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Moat

A moat is a deep, broad ditch dug around a castle, fortification, building, or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary line of defence.

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Motte-and-bailey castle

A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

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Oda clan

The is a Japanese samurai family who were daimyo and an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century.

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Ogasawara clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan descended from the Seiwa Genji.

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Okazaki Castle

is a Japanese castle located in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Nishikawa Castle and Okazaki Castle are castles in Aichi Prefecture.

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Queen consort

A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king, and usually shares her spouse's social rank and status.

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Samurai

were soldiers who served as retainers to lords (including ''daimyo'') in Feudal Japan.

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Sengoku period

The, is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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Shimōsa Province

was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture as well as the bordering parts of Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo (the parts that used to be located east of the lower reaches of the old Tone River prior to the river's eastward diversion, i.e. the parts of the former Katsushika District of Shimōsa that have been transferred to North Katsushika District of Saitama Prefecture and Sumida, Kōtō, Edogawa, and Katsushika wards of Tokyo).

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Shogun

Shogun (shōgun), officially, was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868.

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Siege of Odawara (1590)

The third occurred in 1590, and was the primary action in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign to eliminate the Hōjō clan as a threat to his power.

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Sunpu Castle

was a Japanese castle in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan.

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Takeda clan

The was a Japanese samurai clan active from the late Heian period until the late 16th century.

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Takeda Katsuyori

was a Japanese daimyō of the Sengoku period, who was famed as the head of the Takeda clan and the successor to the legendary warlord Takeda Shingen.

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Tenbun

, also known as Tenmon, was a after Kyōroku and before Kōji.

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Tokugawa Hidetada

was the second shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. Nishikawa Castle and Tokugawa Hidetada are Tokugawa clan.

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Nishikawa Castle and Tokugawa Ieyasu are Tokugawa clan.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nishikawa_Castle

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Castles in Aichi Prefecture

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