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Hokuriku region
The Hokuriku region lies on the Sea of Japan coast of central Honshu, covering the prefectures of Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui. Known for heavy winter snow and rich rice farming, it was a stronghold of the True Pure Land school of Buddhism, whose leagues, the Ikko-ikki, ruled Kaga province for nearly a century. In the Edo period much of it belonged to the Maeda clan.
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