Arimatsu, Aichi

Arimatsu (有松町, Arimatsu-chō) is a town in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It houses the Arimatsu Station of the Meitetsu-Nagoya Line, which is about 11 km southeast of downtown Nagoya. The town merged into Nagoya on 1 December 1964 and is now a part of Midori-ku, Nagoya.[1]

Historic Quarter
Arimatsu Autumn Festival

The Battle of Okehazama in 1560 was located in an area of this town. Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established himself as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.

It is a historical center of shibori, or traditional Japanese tie-dye, and has supported the industry since the seventeenth century, dating back to 1608.

References
  1. 第3章 本市の市域の変遷 (PDF). Nagoya official website (in Japanese). Nagoya city. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2011.
  • Galli, Andrew and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada. "Arimatsu, Narumi shibori celebrating 400 years of Japanese artisan design". (DVD) produced by Arimatsu Shibori Mutsumi-kai (Japan) ; Studio Galli Productions (USA) Fremont,Calif. 2007


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