Kano

A district in the southern part of Gifu City. Former Kano Town. Located south of JR Gifu Station, Kano Station on the Nagoya Railroad Main Line is located here. During the Edo Period, it was the castle town of the Kano Domain and a post town on the Nakasendo Road. After the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), Tokugawa Ieyasu turned his attention to this area, and in order to prepare for the West, he abolished Gifu Castle and expanded and renovated the old Kano Castle, making it the residence of the Okudaira clan with 100,000 koku of rice and a military base for the Edo Shogunate. This role was later lost, and as the stipend was reduced to 32,000 koku, the domain's power declined and the domain's samurai fell into poverty and had to rely on side jobs manufacturing Japanese umbrellas. This manufacturing of Japanese umbrellas is still carried on today as a traditional industry. The ruins of Kano Castle are a national historic site and have been developed into Kano Park.

[Masanobu Ueshima]

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岐阜市南部の一地区。旧加納町。JR岐阜駅の南に位置し、名古屋鉄道本線の加納駅がある。江戸時代には加納藩の城下町、中山道(なかせんどう)の宿場町であった。関ヶ原の戦い（1600）後、徳川家康はこの地に着目し、西に対して備えるべく、岐阜城を廃して加納の旧城を拡充修築させ、奥平(おくだいら)氏10万石の居城とし、江戸幕府の軍事的拠点とした。その役割はのちに失われ、禄高(ろくだか)3万2000石に縮小されるに伴い、藩勢が衰え、藩士は窮迫して、和傘製造の内職に頼らねばならなかった。この和傘製造は、伝統工業として現在も受け継がれている。加納城跡は国の史跡となっていて、加納公園として整備されている。

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