Kawagoe

...It stretches from the northern end of the Musashino Plateau to the alluvial lowlands of the Irumagawa and Arakawa rivers. During the Kamakura period, Kawagoe Shigeyori's mansion was built in Ueto, on the lowlands west of the Irumagawa River, and in the mid-15th century, Kawagoe Castle was built on the northern end of the plateau, marking the beginning of the history of the castle town of Kawagoe. During the Edo period, it was valued as a key castle north of Edo, and with Matsudaira Nobutsuna and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu as its lords, transportation between the city and Edo became active via the Kawagoe Highway and the Shingashi River, and the town prospered to the point of being called "Little Edo." ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Kawagoe" is listed below.

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…武蔵野台地北端から入間川，荒川の沖積低地にまたがる。鎌倉時代に河越重頼の館が入間川西岸低地の上戸に築かれ，15世紀中ごろには台地北端に河越城が築城されて，城下町川越の歴史が始まった。江戸時代には江戸北方の要の城として重視され，城主に松平信綱や柳沢吉保など譜代の重臣が配置されたこともあって，川越街道や新河岸川によって江戸との交通も盛んになり，〈小江戸〉といわれるほどに栄えた。…

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