Encyclopedia > Ota Dokan

Article Content

Ota Dokan

Ota Dokan (太田道灌), 1432-1486, was born as Ota Sukenaga (太田資長) into a daimyo family descending from Minamoto Yorimasa[?]. In 1457 he built the castle of Edo and in 1458 he took the name Dokan, by which he is mainly known.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

French resistance

... F-section that was composed of non-Gaullist agents. In June 5 1944, BBC broadcasted a group of unusual sentences. Abwehr and Wehrmacht knew they were code words – ...