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33-505: The area was radically different in the past, with Kawachi Bay and lake dominating the area over what is now land. Kawachi was divided into three counties ( 地区 , chiku ) : northern ( 北河内 , Kita Kawachi ) , central ( 中河内 , Naka Kawachi ) , and southern ( 南河内 , Minami Kawachi ) . Kawachi province was established in the 7th century. On 11 May 716, the Ōtori , Izumi , and Hine districts were split off to form Izumi Province ( 和泉監 , Izumi-gen ) . In December 720,

66-689: A Core city with increased local autonomy. Higashiōsaka has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city council of 38 members. Higashiōsaka contributes five members to the Osaka Prefectural Assembly . In terms of national politics, the city is part of Osaka 13th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan . Higashiōsaka is one of the most densely populated areas of small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan, and many small factories with high technology occupy

99-568: A Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa ) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Higashiōsaka is 15.6 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1475 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 27.7 °C, and lowest in January, at around 4.2 °C. Per Japanese census data,

132-495: A global share. The ratio of factories to the area is the highest in Japan. The number of factories is also the highest except for government-designated cities such as Osaka City and Yokohama City. However, industry has been decreasing in recent years, and there are cases where factory sites have been converted to residential areas for commuters to the Osaka metropolis. Yamamoto Kogaku , an eyewear manufacturer, known for its brand Swans ,

165-467: A war location then. The aspect of the summer campaign was completely turned about, and the outer moat of Osaka Castle was buried, leaving the castle exposed; the Osaka side judged a siege defense to be impossible, and intercepted Tokugawa's side going from Kyoto to Osaka in the field. Therefore, fights occurred at various places in Kawachi, it being between Kyoto and Osaka. The primary battles that developed were

198-465: Is a city located in Osaka Prefecture , Japan . As of 1 July 2023 , the city had an estimated population of 486,464 in 233,124 households and a population density of 7,874 persons per km . The total area of the city is 61.78 square kilometres (23.85 sq mi). The city is known as one of the industrial cities of Japan and "the rugby football town". Higashiōsaka is located in

231-648: Is even now close to the Tsūhō-ji remains that was the Kawachi Genji's family temple. Minamoto no Yoritomo (who founded the Kamakura shogunate ) was a descendant of these Kawachi Genji. Near the end of the Kamakura period , Kusunoki Masashige and his household, being a powerful clan of southern Kawachi, rose up in defiance of the shogunate; barricaded in the Shimo Akasaka , Kami Akasaka , and Chihaya castles, he baffled

264-736: Is headquartered in the city. The city is also home of RAYS , a high-end wheel manufacturer for both motorsport and street use. Prefectural senior high schools: Municipal senior high schools: Other senior high schools: North Korea-aligned Korean international schools : [REDACTED] JR West – Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line) [REDACTED] JR West – Osaka Higashi Line [REDACTED] Kintetsu Railway - [REDACTED] Nara Line [REDACTED] Kintetsu Railway - [REDACTED] Osaka Line [REDACTED] Kintetsu Railway - [REDACTED] Keihanna Line [REDACTED] Osaka Metro - [REDACTED] Chūō Line Takaida - Nagata In association football ,

297-679: Is located in Higashiōsaka . In addition, Katano Shrine in Hirakata , is labelled the "Primary Shrine of Kashū" ( 河州一ノ宮 , Kashū Ichi-no-Miya ) , but this may be a mixup where what was once the primary shrine for the Katano township was confused for the primary shrine of Kawachi. The secondary shrine is said to have been Onji Shrine  [ ja ] . However, just having the second most influence in Kawachi Province does not necessarily mean it

330-623: Is not known for certain. It may have been moved during the Nara period (both locations would still be within modern Fujiidera). However, in the Shūgaishō , the capital was in Ōagata District. In the Setsuyōshū , Tanboku District was mentioned as the seat. It seems that there was no office of shugo before the Jōkyū War . It is unknown where the original shugo's residence was, but afterwards, it transferred to

363-503: The Sei-i Taishōgun ; he opened his bakufu , but as Kawachi was Toyotomi Hideyori 's fiefdom, it was not entered into the bakuhan taisei . When Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyori had their showdown at the Siege of Osaka , Kawachi also became a battleground. This fight had a winter and a summer campaign, but since the winter campaign was a battle around Osaka Castle, Kawachi was not

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396-568: The kanrei house of Hosokawa continued to face internal strife; in addition to the Hosokawa inheritance dispute between Takakuni , Sumimoto , and Sumiyuki , the son of Sumimoto (the victor of that conflict) Harumoto attacked and overthrew the shugodai in Sakai who played an active role in the Hosokawa clan's internal strife, Miyoshi Motonaga . The bakufu , which was an asset for Harumoto, had been preserved, but Miyoshi's son Nagayoshi proceeded to

429-568: The Battle of Dōmyōji ( Gotō Matabee vs. Date Masamune , Matsudaira Tadateru , and Mizuno Katsunari ; Sanada Yukimura , Kitagawa Nobukatsu , and Susukida Kanesuke vs. Date Masamune, Matsudaira Tadateru, and Mizuno Katsunari) and the battle of Yao and Wakae ( Kimura Shigenari vs. Ii Naotaka ; Chōsokabe Morichika vs. Tōdō Takatora ). In the Edo period , Kawachi was dotted with tenryō as well as hatamotos . As for daimyōs , there were only two:

462-668: The Hōjō of Sayama Domain and the Takagi of Tannan Domain . In addition, the Inaba of Yodo Domain had many territories. Though Kawachi was a very small province, many important people in ancient and medieval Japan had to do with the area and the decisive moments in Japanese history that took place there or around it. Kawachi Bay Kawachi Bay (河内湾) was a bay that existed millennia ago in modern Osaka city and surrounds. On its eastern border were

495-610: The Ikoma mountain range , and the west there was a peninsula where many (pre)historical settlements are found. Both the Yodo River on the northern periphery and the Yamato River on the southern end emptied into it. The alluvium deposits created a sandbar today known as Uemachi Plateau . Eventually the bay was cut off from the ocean by the growing sand peninsula, turning it into a lake called Kawachi Lake (河内湖). Continual deposition in time filled

528-558: The Incident at Honnō-ji , Hashiba Hideyoshi , who attacked Akechi Mitsuhide at the battle of Yamazaki , as a result of the Kiyosu Conference , came to control the province. Hideyoshi came to rule all Japan, and when Osaka Castle was built, Wakae Castle , which had once been an important spot in Kawachi, became derelict. After the death of Hideyoshi, the Battle of Sekigahara ensued, and Tokugawa Ieyasu became ruler of all Japan:

561-630: The Mononobe clan ; Kizuri in Higashiōsaka was, in ancient times, one of their strongholds. Tsuboi in Habikino became a stronghold of the warrior family that was the Minamoto clan (i.e., the Kawachi Genji ). The likes of Hachimantarō Yoshiie who made vassals out of the samurai of the eastern provinces, his father Minamoto no Yoriyoshi , and Yoshiyori's father Minamoto no Yorinobu 's tomb of three generations

594-747: The Yamato River . During the Kofun and Asuka periods , this was the homeland of the Mononobe clan , and was on the main road between the Yamato Basin and the port at Naniwa, with sea connections to the Asian continent. During the Heian period , the area was largely controlled by Hiraoka Shrine . From the Muromachi period , it was the base of the Hatakeyama clan to control Kawachi Province, but due to internal conflicts it can under

627-608: The shōgun was reduced to a figurehead and along with seizing the real power of the bakufu, he transferred the stronghold from Akutagawa Mountain Castle in Settsu to Iimori Mountain Castle in Kawachi ( Shijōnawate , Osaka ). But even Nagayoshi had to pass away at the age of 42, and afterwards retainers were in conflict (the Miyoshi triumvirate and Matsunaga Hisahide ), making a battleground of Kawachi and Yamato . The event that finally closed

660-553: The Kamakura shogunal armies. With the direct imperial rule of Kenmu , Kusunoki was appointed as both kokushi and shugo . The Nanboku-chō period arrived as Ashikaga Takauji opposed Emperor Go-Daigo , and Kawachi became a hotspot for battles; Kusunoki Masashige's eldest son Kusunoki Masatsura was killed in action at the battle of Shijō Nawate . "After the death of Chikafusa the Southern Court moved from Anau to Amano in

693-464: The Katashimo ( 堅下郡 , Katashimo-gun ) and Katakami ( 堅上郡 , Katakami-gun ) districts were combined to become Ōagata ( 大縣郡 , Ōagata-gun ) . On 15 September 740, Izumi Province was merged back in. On 30 May 757, that area was again separated to form Izumi Province (this time with the normal kuni designation). Under Dōkyō 's administration, Yuge-no-Miya ( 由義宮 ) was established, taking

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726-656: The Tannan, Furuichi, Wakae, and Takaya areas. A provincial temple for monks was constructed in the Tenpyō era; they were at modern Kokubuhiganjō in Kashiwara , but they went out of use in sometime around the Nanboku-chō period . Similarly, one for nuns was also near the same place, but it seems that it was in ruin by the Heian period . Hiraoka Shrine was designated as the chief Shinto shrine ( ichinomiya ) of Kawachi Province. The shrine

759-586: The begotten Hatakeyama Yoshinari quarreled, and as Kawachi became the background for that feud, it fell to waste. Masanaga was attacked at Shōgaku-ji ( 正覚寺 , Kami-Shōgaku-ji , Hirano-ku , Osaka ) by Hosokawa Masamoto and Hatakeyama Yoshitoyo , but his son Hisayoshi was in Kishū attempting to recoup for another attack; finally, they succeeded in making a comeback as the shugo of Kawachi and Kishū, and Hisayoshi's son Tanenaga ultimately managed to destroy Yoshihide of Yoshinari's line, once again consolidating

792-722: The capital from Awa ; while he accepting a wife from the shugodai of Kawachi who had the de facto power (Yusa Naganori) and received other such favors of power, in subordination to Harumoto, but not in subordination to the wishes of Harumoto, he played an active role in such things as attacking Kizawa Nagamasa in Takaida (in modern Kashiwara , Osaka ). However, being in opposition later on, Nagayoshi would fight his father's cousin in Harumoto's faction, Miyoshi Masanaga , in dispute over Kawachi Jū Nana Kasho at places like Enami Castle , going on to break down Harumoto's controlled political power;

825-567: The control of the Miyoshi clan . Later it was the site of battles during the 1615 Siege of Osaka . In the Edo Period , flood control projects on the Yamato River created a large amount of reclaimed land, which was developed by wealthy Osaka merchants for rice and cotton production. The modern city was founded on February 1, 1967, by a merger of three cities, Fuse ( 布施 ) , Kawachi ( 河内 ) and Hiraoka ( 枚岡 ) . On April 1, 2005, Higashiōsaka became

858-669: The eastern part of the Osaka Plain , bordered by the Osaka metropolis to the west. Most of the city area is flat lowlands laced with rivers and has been subject to periodic flooding. The main rivers include the Nagase River, Onji River, Tamagushi River, and Daini Neya River. The eastern part of the city rises to the Ikoma Mountains , forming the border with Nara Prefecture. The city measures approximately 11.2 kilometers from east-to-west by 7.9 kilometers from north-to-south. Higashiōsaka has

891-448: The house of Hatakeyama. However, through all this, Kawachi had been the battleground, and had essentially been reduced to scorched earth . By the Sengoku period , the consolidated Kawachi was the asset of Hatakeyama Tanenaga , but the real power was imbued in the shugodai , a title that passed into the hands of Yusa Naganori : the shugo came to be reduced to a mere figurehead. Moreover,

924-420: The lake turning it swampy; some centuries later it became an alluvial plain on which most of Osaka Prefecture sits. The word Kawachi refers to Kawachi Province , which itself means inside the river . This Osaka Prefecture location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Higashi%C5%8Dsaka Higashiōsaka ( 東大阪市 , Higashiōsaka-shi , literally "East Osaka City")

957-564: The name of Nishi-no-Miyako ( 西京 , "Western Capital") ; moreover, in 769 the office of Kawachi kokushi was abolished, and the special administration structure of Kawachi shiki ( 河内職 ) was established. With the downfall of Dōkyō, the prior system was restored the following year. The provincial capital was in Shiki District , which is believed to have been at Kouiseki ( 国府遺跡 , "provincial capital ruins") in Fujiidera , but this

990-550: The period and these conflicts was Oda Nobunaga 's procession to the capital. Upon his ascension to the capital, Oda Nobunaga gave the task of governing the northern half of Kawachi to Miyoshi Yoshitsugu , and that of the southern half to Hatakeyama Akitaka (his son-in-law). However, they both fell in the conflicts around the Genki era, and control of Kawachi fell to Oda's chief vassal Sakuma Nobumori . But even Nobumori would later be shunned and banished by Nobunaga. When Oda died in

1023-406: The population of Higashiōsaka increased rapidly from the 1950s through 1970s, and has leveled off since. The location of Higashiōsaka corresponds to the central part of Kawachi Province . In ancient times, this area was an extension of Osaka Bay called Kawachi Bay, which gradually became separated from the sea and became a lake. The lake gradually became land due to the accumulation of sediment by

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1056-450: The province of Kawachi, making the Kongoji its headquarters." With the advent of the Muromachi period , the post of Kawachi shugo fell to one of the three kanrei , of the Hatakeyama clan ; Hatakeyama Mitsuie and Hatakeyama Mochikuni continued this, making what should have been a dynasty of sorts, but in dispute over Mochikuni's family headship, the adopted Hatakeyama Masanaga and

1089-409: Was a secondary shrine in the shrine system. That it is called the secondary shrine is also a recent innovation. There were no lower-level shrines. The sōja (Shinto) was Shiki-Agatanushi Shrine ; there is a theory that this shrine was moved to where the sōja's land was, and another theory that it came to be the sōja due to its proximity to the capital. The province of Kawachi was once the power of

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