Kōzuke Province
Kōzuke Province (上野国, Kōzuke no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Gunma Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It is also known as Jōshū (上州) or Jōmō (上毛).
The ancient capital city of the province was near Maebashi.
History
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In the Nara period, Kōzuke was part of Keno Province. This was changed in the reforms of the Taihō Code in 701.[2]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Kōzuke Province were reformed in the 1870s.[3]
Shrines and Temples
[change | change source]Ichinomiyanukisaki jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kōzuke. [4]
Related pages
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[change | change source]- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kōzuke" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 568.
- ↑ Tsunoda, Ryūsaku et al. (1951). Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories: Later Han through Ming dynasties, p. 18 n25.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-18.
Other websites
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Media related to Kozuke Province at Wikimedia Commons
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Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,
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