Imai

Japanese: 今井 - いまい

The name of Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture. It originated as a temple town established within the grounds of an Ikko sect dojo (later known as Shonenji Temple), and is famous for its historic streetscape. In 1541, Imai Hyobu Toyohisa of Ishiyama Honganji (Osaka Gobo) built a dojo for the Honganji temple and laid out the town layout within the temple grounds. According to the Imai clan genealogy, the temple grounds were armed, but were defeated by Oda Nobunaga in 1575. In the early Edo period, the temple stretched 610m east to west and 310m north to south, with nine gates, four of which were closed at night. It had an autonomous organization with the three families of Imanishi and Ozaki, and later Ueda, as head elders, and was initially a Shogunate territory, but later became a Shogunate territory after passing through the Yamato Koriyama domain. During the feudal domain period, it was called Imai-cho, and it became a prosperous town with six towns, Minami, Nishi, Higashi, Kita, Ima, and Shin, with about 1,200 houses and a population of about 4,000. Eight houses, including the Imanishi family home, have been designated as Important Cultural Properties by the national government, and 80% of the current approximately 800 houses are private homes from the Edo period.

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Japanese:

奈良県橿原(かしはら)市の地名。一向宗道場（のちの称念寺）境内に成立した寺内町に淵源し，歴史的町並みで著名。1541年石山(いしやま)本願寺（大坂御坊）の今井兵部豊寿が本願寺の道場を建て，境内に町割を敷いた。今井氏家譜によると境内地は武装していたが，1575年織田信長に敗れたという。江戸時代初期は東西約610m，南北約310m，東西南北９所の門があり，夜は４所を閉ざした。今西・尾崎，のち上田を加えた３家を惣年寄とする自治組織を持ち，初め幕府領であったが大和郡山(こおりやま)藩領を経て幕府領。藩領時代今井町を称し，南・西・東・北・今・新の６町，戸数約1200戸・人口約4000人の豊かな町となった。今西家を含む８軒の住宅が国の重要文化財に指定され，現戸数約800戸の８割が江戸時代の民家。

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