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Owari Province

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File:Provinces of Japan-Owari.svg
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Owari 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 Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] including much of modern Nagoya. It is also known as Bishū (尾州).

The ancient capital of Owari was near Inazawa

History[change]

File:Fujimi Fuji view field in the Owari province.jpg
View of Owari Province, woodblock print by Hokusai, 1830

The province was created in 646.[1]

In the Sengoku Period, Oda Nobunaga held Kiyosu Castle.[2]

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the main city of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The road passed through Owari.[3]

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Owari Province were reformed in the 1870s.[4]

Geography[change]

Owari and Mino provinces were separated by the Sakai River.

Shrines and Temples[change]

Masumida jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Owari. [5]

Related pages[change]

References[change]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Owari" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 767.
  2. Kiyosu City website, "Kiyosu Castle" Archived 2008-02-09 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-19.
  3. Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
  4. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  5. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-19.

Other websites[change]

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