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Inaba Province

Coordinates: 35°24′42″N 134°11′44″E / 35.41167°N 134.19556°E / 35.41167; 134.19556
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File:Provinces of Japan-Inaba.svg
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Inaba Province highlighted

Lua error in Module:Nihongo at line 88: attempt to call field '_transl' (a nil value). was an old province of Japan in the area of Tottori Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Inshū (因州).

The province had borders with Harima, Hōki, Mimasaka, and Tajima Provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was at Tottori city.

History[change]

File:Tottori Castle oldphoto Ninomaru.jpg
Tottori Castle in Hōki Province, early Meiji period
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Ruins of Tottori Castle, 2010

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Inaba Province were reformed in the 1870s.[2]

Shrines and Temples[change]

Ube jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Inaba. [3]

Related pages[change]

References[change]

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Inaba" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 385.
  2. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  3. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites[change]

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