ury, instead of the Chiba clan, the Hara clan, which was one of the servants of Chiba clan, wielded power in this region. In the Sengoku period, the Hara clan was forcibly removed by Ashikaga Yoshiaki. Then, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was also removed by the Sakai clan, which was one of the servants of the Satomi clan. Finally both the Chiba and Sakai clans were annihilated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
After the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the advent of the railroad in Japan Chiba became the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Chiba Prefecture. Chiba became a Designated City of Japan on April 1, 1992.
Places Not To Miss:
Sakura Samurai Street:Read
Sakura City is in the northern part of Chiba Prefecture. . In 1611, Doi Toshikatsu, who held the important post of roju at that time, constructed Sakura Castle, taking seven years complete it. There is a street of old samurai residents surrounded by mounds and hedges in Miyakoji-Machi in the east of the ruins of the castle. Three residential buildings on this street, such as the former Kawara House, the former Tajima House and the former Takei House, are some of the oldest samurai residents remaining in Sakura City, and are open to the public.
Samurai house street has the traces of old Sakura, a castle town. The earthwork and planting fences built along the road remind us of bygone days. Because the three houses differed in rank and value of fief, you can get an idea of the variation of the lives of samurai by comparing these housing buildings.
Oyama Senmaida Rice Terraces:Read
The Oyama Senmaida rice field extends upwards along the narrow street in Kamogawa City, it is a beautiful rice terrace created between heavily forested hills. Its approximately 400 layers are preserved through the hard work of local farmers as well as urban dwellers who have decided to take up farming in recent years.
Other than the rice terraces there are sights nearby like Nihon-ji, a Buddhist temple in the nearby town of Kyonan, famous for its 18th century Daibutsu. Nihon-ji has been destroyed several times over the course of its 1300-year history but every time it has managed to rise again.
Tamasaki Shrine is a Shinto shrine in Ichinomiya, Chiba, Japan.The shrine is located in an area of the Bōsō Peninsula with a favorable climate, which has been settled since at least the Jōmon period. Shell middens. The shrine is mentioned as the ichinomiya of Kazusa Province in the Engishiki records from the early Heian period. However, repeated fires and other disasters over the centuries have destroyed all of the old shrine records and buildings. The shrine was burned down in 1562 during a battle involving the Satomi clan and was rebuilt by the Satomi in 1587. Additional structures were donated by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1591 and the shrine reconstructed in 1678.
The main festival of the shrine is held annually on September 13, and features kagura performances, which are listed as an Intangible Cultural Property of Chiba Prefecture.
Sogo reido Sanctuary:Read
This sanctuary, originally, this sanctuary is named Meishozan Toshoji Temple, which was built in for the memory of people who died when General Sakanoue Tamuramaro suppressed a civil war in the Tohoku region during the reign of Emperor Kammu (781-806 A.D.).
Sakura Sogoro or better known as Sogo Sama(1605 – September 1653), was a legendary Japanese farmer whose real family name was Kiuchi. He is said to have appealed directly to the shogun in 1652 when he was serving as a headman of one of the villages in the Sakura Domain. In the appeal he requested the shogun to help ease the peasants’ burden of heavy taxes and bad crops. But since direct appeals were illegal in those days, he was arrested. It is widely believed that he was executed along with his four sons in 1653 by the daimyo of his feudal domain. The legend of Sakura Sogoro has been made into numerous stories and plays . He is enshrined in Sōgo-reidō of Tōshōji temple in Narita city. He is still admired by many as gimin (martyr, in the non-religious sense). To honour him, he is called Sōgo-sama (the honourab