Aichi

Aichi lay on the border of Owari and Mikawa, where the Nōbi Plain meets Ise Bay and Mikawa Bay. Rivers crossing the plain repeatedly changed course and flooded, so settlements were placed on the higher natural levees. After taking the area in 1524, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu built Okazaki Castle, and his grandson Matsudaira Motoyasu, later Tokugawa Ieyasu, was born there in 1543. At Tokoname, on the shore of Ise Bay, potters made storage jars and wares in the tradition of the Six Ancient Kilns.