Naoiri

Naoiri lies in the uplands of inland Bungo, around the castle town of Taketa. In 1594 Nakagawa Hidenari arrived from Miki in Harima and established the Oka domain. He strengthened Oka Castle and laid out a town below it, making Taketa a centre of the interior. The Nakagawa family continued to govern the domain through the Edo period, its mountain stronghold overlooking the valleys of southern Bungo.