Inuyama

Inuyama is a town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, north of the Nagoya Metropolis. As of May 2015, the town had an estimated. During the Edo duration, Inuyama become a sub-area of Owari Domain, entrusted to senior retainers of the Nagoya-department of the Tokugawa clan. Immediately following the Meiji Restoration in 1868, it changed into mounted as an unbiased feudal han, till the 1871 abolition of the han device. With the cadastral reforms of October 1, 1889, the metropolis of Inuyama was created. Inuyama changed into extended to city repute in 1954.

Another well-known appeal is the Urakuen tea garden used for tea ceremonies. This garden incorporates the Jo-an tea residence, constructed in 1618 by using Oda Uraku 1547–1621, more youthful brother of Oda Nobunaga. Tea grasp Oda Uraku changed into a pupil of the well-known tea grasp Sen no Rikyu. While the Jo-an tea residence become at first built in Kyoto, it became moved to its modern-day region in 1972. The building is taken into consideration one of the best examples of tea house structure.