Hanzawa

Hanzawa was a district of Musashi on the northern plain of the Kantō. Its ancient district office stood in the area later known as Okabe, and local warrior families took the name of Hanzawa from their lands. Tradition remembers Hanzawa Rokurō Narikiyo, whose remains were said to have been brought back to the family residence at Ushiro-Hanzawa. The district’s villages occupied a landscape of river terraces and cultivated land south of the Tone.