Kanagawa Prefecture
Odawara Hojo Festival Kanagawa Prefecture ( 神奈川県 , Kanagawa-ken?) is a prefecture located inward the southern Kantō part of Japan. The uppercase is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater Tokyo Area. History The prefecture has roughly archaeological sites going dorsum to the Jōmon menses (around 400 BC). About 3,000 years ago, Mount Hakone produced a volcanic explosion which resulted inward Lake Ashi on the western expanse of the prefecture. It is believed[by whom?] that the Yamato Dynasty ruled this expanse from fifth century onwards. In the ancient era, its plains were real sparsely inhabited. Kamakura inward cardinal Sagami was the uppercase of Nippon during the Kamakura menses (1185–1333). In medieval Japan, Kanagawa was part of the provinces of Sagami as well as Musashi. During the Edo period, the western part of Sagami Province was governed past times the daimyo of Odawara Castle, spell the eastern part was straight governed past times the Tokugawa Shogunate inward Edo (Tokyo)...