This video briefly describes the history of Oda Castle in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The footage was filmed at the remains of Oda Castle (小田城跡) on July 22nd 2019.
Sources:
Cl. E. M., Vacation Ramblings in Ibaraki, in The Japan Weekly Mail, October 11th 1890, pp. 361-362.
Thomas Conlan, From Sovereign to Symbol: An Age of Ritual Determinism in Fourteenth Century Japan (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Haruo Shirane, ed., Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600 (New York: University of Columbia Press, 2007).
JCastle.info (
The Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns (Jinnō Shōtōki 神皇正統記) can be read at J-Texts.com ( or the University of California, Berkeley's Japanese Historical Text Initiative (
Music was created using AIVA ( and then edited.
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Digital Japanology: An Introduction
A video introducing the channel, Digital Japanology. It attempts to outline the channel's origins and purposes.
This video was filmed at the remains of Oda Castle in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Our previous video on Oda Castle can be viewed here:
Music was created using AIVA ( and then edited in GarageBand.
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JAPÃO/CONHECENDO O INTERIOR
Passeando de bike em Tsukuba, província de Ibaraki!