Kanazawa

Kanazawa is a metropolis located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. As of one January 2018, the city had an expected population of 466,029 in 203,271 households, and a populace density of 990 men and women in line with km². The total place of the city changed into 468.64 rectangular kilometres. It is the capital of Ishikawa Prefecture. The vicinity round Kanazawa was a part of historic Kaga Province.

The name "Kanazawa which literally manner marsh of gold, is stated to derive from the legend of the peasant Imohori Togoro literally Togoro Potato-digger who was digging for potatoes when flakes of gold washed up. The properly inside the grounds of Kenroku-en known as 'Kinjo Reitaku' to renowned those roots. The area where Kanazawa is was in the beginning called Ishiura, whose call is preserved at the Ishiura Shrine near the Kenrokuen.

During the Muromachi duration, because the powers of the significant shoguns in Kyoto was waning, Kaga Province came below the manage of the Ikko-ikki, followers of the teachings of priest Rennyo, of the Jodo Shinshu sect, who displaced the professional governors of the province, the Togashi extended family, and set up a sort of theocratic republic later called "The Peasants' Kingdom". Their main stronghold turned into the Kanazawa Gobo, on the tip of the Kodatsuno Ridge.