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15-473: Seya may refer to: Places [ edit ] Seya-ku, Yokohama , a ward of the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Seya Station , a railway station in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan Film [ edit ] Seya (film) , a 2018 film Music [ edit ] Seya (album) , a 2009 album by Oumou Sangaré Topics referred to by

30-631: A highway linking Kamakura with the provinces in northern Japan also passed through the area. During the Muromachi period , Seya was a contested territory between the competing Uesugi clan and Ashikaga clan until the area was seized by the Later Hōjō clan from Odawara in the late Sengoku period . After the defeat of the Hōjō at the Battle of Odawara , the territory came under the control of Tokugawa Ieyasu . It

45-435: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Seya-ku, Yokohama Seya Ward is located in eastern Kanagawa Prefecture, and on the northwestern borders of the city of Yokohama. The area is largely flatland, with scattered small hills. The area around present-day Seya Ward has been inhabited continuously for thousands of years. Archaeologists have found stone tools from

60-541: The 1923 Great Kantō earthquake , with one fatality and 53 houses destroyed. The Sagami Railway Main Line connected the area with Yokohama in 1926. On April 1, 1939, Seya was annexed by the neighboring city of Yokohama, becoming part of Totsuka Ward. During World War II , Seya hosted numerous military facilities, including munitions plants and training grounds. Seya Station was destroyed in an air strike in January 1945 and

75-688: The Bakumatsu period came under the control of the Nirayama daikansho . After the Meiji Restoration , Seya was transferred to the short-lived Nirayama Prefecture, before becoming part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1868. In the cadastral reform of April 1, 1889, the area was divided into several villages under Kamakura District. During the Meiji period , the area was a center for sericulture . Seya suffered relatively little damage from

90-877: The Japanese Paleolithic period and ceramic shards from the Jōmon period , house ruins from the Yayoi period and tombs from the Kofun period at numerous locations in the area. Under the Nara period Ritsuryō system, it became part of Kamakura District in Sagami Province . By the Kamakura period , parts of Seya were part of a shōen which supported the Shinto shrine of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū . The Kamakura-kaidō ,

105-567: The head temple of the Ji-sect of Japanese Buddhism . It was also located on a fork along the Odawara Kaidō , which connected Odawara Castle and its two supporting castles, Edo Castle and Hachiōji Castle during the period of the Late Hōjō clan . The gate of post station ( 見附 , mitsuke ) toward Edo was to the east of Yugyō-ji, and the gate towards Kyoto was on the western side of

120-470: The local hatago . The Fujisawa Palace ( 藤沢御殿 , Fujisawa Goten ) was built at Fujisawa-shuku in the early days of the Tokugawa Shogunate . The first three Shōgun ( Tokugawa Ieyasu , Tokugawa Hidetada and Tokugawa Iemitsu stayed at this palace on a total of some 30 occasions. Records indicate that it was a large structure, measuring 106 x 32 bays, and was surrounded by a wide moat. It

135-554: The modern Odakyū Enoshima Line ; these boundaries mark the general limits of Fujisawa-juku. It was said that there were over 1,000 buildings in the post town, including honjin , hatago , etc. Up until 1745, the honjin for Fujisawa-shuku was the Horiuchi Honjin, but after that, the Maita Honjin was used. At the temple of Eishō-ji ( 永勝寺 ) , there are a number of graves of the meshimori onna who worked at

150-445: The populated areas were destroyed in a fire-bombing air raid by USAAF B-29 Superfortress bombers on April 3, 1945. In the post-war period, a USAF B-57 Canberra bomber based at nearby Atsugi Naval Air Facility crashed on October 27, 1957 with the loss of one civilian on the ground, and on November 27, 1961, an F8U Crusader crashed in a residential area. In a major administrative reorganization of October 1, 1969, Totsuka-ku

165-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Seya . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seya&oldid=1251109159 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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180-568: Was administered as tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate , but administered through various hatamoto . The area prospered in the Edo period as a post station on the Kamakura-kaidō and Nakahara-kaidō highways connecting Edo with Kamakura and with the provinces of central Honshu. At times, Seya was administered by Totsuka-juku , Fujisawa-shuku , and towards

195-997: Was divided, and Seya emerged as an independent ward within Yokohama. Seya Ward is largely a regional commercial center and bedroom community for central Yokohama and Tokyo. The industrial part has access to the Tōmei Highway, and there are a number of newspaper printing plants, chemical plants, and warehouse/transshipment centers. There is some residual agriculture in Seya, primarily livestock. Kanagawa Prefectural Board of Education operates prefectural senior high schools: Private secondary school: Yokohama Municipal Board of Education  [ ja ] operates municipal elementary schools and junior high schools. Junior high schools: Elementary schools: Additionally, Shinbashi Elementary School ( 新橋小学校 ), outside of Seya-ku, has an attendance zone including parts of Seya-ku. Fujisawa-shuku Fujisawa-shuku ( 藤沢宿 , Fujisawa-shuku )

210-655: Was located next to the Fujisawa daikansho , which is now between the present-day Fujisawa Municipal Hall and the Fujisawa Municipal Hospital. It was dismantled and moved to Edo after the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657 and its materials were used to rebuild part of the Shōgunal palace at Edo Castle . The classic ukiyo-e print by Andō Hiroshige (Hōeidō edition) from 1831–1834 depicts a village with

225-583: Was the sixth of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō . It is located in the present-day city of Fujisawa , Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan . Fujisawa-shuku was established as a post station on the Tōkaidō in 1601, but did not become the sixth post station until Totsuka-juku was later established. Before the establishment of the Tōkaidō, Fujisawa flourished as a “temple town” ( 門前町 , monzen-machi ) for Shōjōkō-ji , also known as " Yugyō-ji " ( Japanese : 遊行寺 ),

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