jōka-machi
Japanese history
Also known as: castle town
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urban settlement
- In Japan: Commerce, cities, and culture
…period, mainly represented by the castle towns of the various daimyo. These daimyo, numbering some 250 for most of the period, were allowed by the bakufu to have but one castle, and thus there was a move to pull down other castles and concentrate the samurai of each han in…
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