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is a city located in western Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
As of September 1, 2015, the city had an estimated population of 789,407, making it the prefecture's largest city and a population density of 507 persons per km. The total area was .
On July 1, 2005, Hamamatsu absorbed the cities of Tenryū and Hamakita, the town of Haruno (from Shūchi District), the towns of Hosoe, Inasa and Mikkabi (all from Inasa District), the towns of Misakubo and Sakuma, the village of Tatsuyama (all from Iwata District), and the towns of Maisaka and Yūtō (both from Hamana District) to become the current and expanded city of Hamamatsu. It became a city designated by government ordinance on April 1, 2007.
Usage examples of "hamamatsu".
Day of the thirteenth year of Eiroku, Ieyasu left his son in charge of the castle at Okazaki, and he himself moved to Hamamatsu in Totomi.
By the time Ieyasu arrived at Hamamatsu Nobunaga was already on his way to Kyoto.
Even if the situation becomes pressing and you have to withdraw from Hamamatsu to Okazaki, I hope you will persevere.
Now, with this situation upon them, the castle of Hamamatsu was as full of fury as a boiling kettle, but while Ieyasu sat there and advocated a violent confrontation more than anyone else, the tone of his voice hardly changed at all.
Oda troops had been arriving at Hamamatsu, and no one knew for sure how many soldiers might be there now.
Nobunaga arrives with a great army acting as a rear guard for Hamamatsu, you should probably give the matter careful thought right here, my lord.
Natsume Jirozaemon, the officer left in charge of Hamamatsu Castle, heard of the defeat of his comrades, he set out with a small force of thirty mounted men to ensure the safety of Ieyasu.
But this time we are sure to take Okazaki Castle and Hamamatsu Castle.
Akechi was sent to the other clans, and, perhaps due to the speed with which it was notified, the army of Lord Ieyasu has returned to Hamamatsu from Narumi.
He was depressed as he reflected on the great difference between this project and the castles of Okazaki and Hamamatsu in his own province.
That man, of course, was the sleeping dragon of Hamamatsu, Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu.
An assassination attempt on Lord Yoshi at dawn at Hamamatsu village failed.
With pretended meekness the shoya offered the sliver of paper, the same he had previously shown to Raiko and Meikin: An assassination attempt on Yoshi at dawn at Hamamatsu village failed.
Yoshi at Hamamatsu, that Koiko was killed in the melee, a shishi also.