Kashiwa

Kashiwa is a metropolis positioned in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of December 1, 2015, the city had an anticipated population of 411,602, and a population density of 3,590 human beings in line with km2. The overall place is 114.70 square kilometres. The name of the metropolis is written with a single kanji person, a reference to Quercus dentata, normally seemed in English as the Japanese emperor very wellor daimyo oak.

Kashiwa has been settled considering that ancient times, and grow to be traditionally a part of Shimosa Province. The location round Kashiwa have become the website online of the Battle of Sakainehara in 1478 early in the Sengoku length 1467 – 1573. During the Edo period 1603 – 1868, the location became tenryo territory controlled immediately thru the Tokugawa shogunate. The shogunate set up some of horse ranches which provided warfare horses for the navy of the shogunate.

The Tokugawa shogunate placed a great deal effort into draining the marshy areas of Lake Tekanuma in the course of the Edo duration as part of large-scale land reclamation finished throughout Japan. Kashiwa have become developed as a submit station on the Mito Kaido, which related the capitol at Edo with Mito in gift-day Ibaraki Prefecture. Kashiwa is a neighborhood industrial center and a bed room network for nearby Chiba and Tokyo.