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和歌山県
Wakayama
11 events
Ancient
About 4th – 7th century
The Iwase Senzuka burial mounds are built near the Kinokawa River
Heian
816
Kūkai receives imperial permission to found a monastery on Kōyasan
Late Heian
Insei period (rule by retired emperors)
Retired emperors make repeated pilgrimages to Kumano
Across periods
Medieval to Edo period
Yuasa becomes a center of soy sauce brewing
Sengoku
1585
Negoroji burns during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign in Kii
Edo
Early Edo period
Organized whaling begins on the Kumano coast
1619
Tokugawa Yorinobu enters Wakayama Castle, beginning the Kii Tokugawa line
1854
Hamaguchi Goryō guides villagers to safety and builds a tsunami wall
Meiji
1890
The Ottoman warship Ertuğrul is wrecked off Kushimoto
Contemporary
1953
The Nanki Heavy Rain brings disastrous floods to Wakayama
2004
The Kii Mountain Range pilgrimage routes become a World Heritage site
Nearby
Mie
Nara
Osaka