Ashigara

Ashigara lies in western Sagami between the mountains of Hakone and the sea. At Odawara, the later Hōjō family built a stronghold from which five generations extended their power across the Kantō. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi advanced in 1590, they enclosed the town within extensive defences, but his army besieged it for roughly a hundred days. The surrender of Odawara ended Hōjō rule, and the castle subsequently passed to the Ōkubo under Tokugawa Ieyasu.