Kazusa Province
Kazusa Province (上総国, Kazusa-no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was also known as Sōshū (総州) or Nansō (南総).
The ancient capital city of the province was in or near Ichihara, Chiba.
History
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Kazusa was originally part of a larger territory known as Fusa Province (総国 or 捄国, Fusa-no-kuni), which was divided into Kazusa Province and Shimōsa Province during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654). Part of Kazusa was made into Awa Province during the reign of Empress Genshō.[2]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Kazusa Province were reformed in the 1870s.[3]
Shrines and Temples
changeTamasaki jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kazusa. [4]
Related pages
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change- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kazusa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 502.
- ↑ Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean (1884). Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, Vol. 6, p. 172; excerpt, Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, Noto, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and Shinano
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.
Other websites
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