Kuwana

Kuwana is a metropolis located in Mie Prefecture, Japan. In November 2012, the city had an expected population of 140,796 and a population density of 1,030 in step with km². The total vicinity is 136.61 km². During the past due Heian length and Muromachi duration, the area of modern Kuwana become called Juraku-no-tsu and turned into a first-rate seaport at the east coast of Japan, controlled by a guild of merchants.

The poet Socho described it in 1515 as a main metropolis with over a thousand houses, temples and hotels. During the Sengoku duration, the region got here beneath the manipulate of the warlord Oda Nobunaga. The Sieges of Nagashima passed off in 1571, 1573 and 1574, finally ensuing within the destruction of the Ikko-ikki by way of Nobunaga’s forces. After Nobunaga’s dying, the area got here underneath the control of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who to start with mounted Nobunaga’s younger son Oda Nobukatsu as ruler as all of Ise Province.