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Shinano bordered on [[Echigo Province|Echigo]], [[Etchū Province|Etchū]], [[Hida Province|Hida]], [[Kai Province|Kai]], [[Kōzuke Province|Kōzuke]], [[Mikawa Province|Mikawa]], [[Mino Province|Mino]], [[Musashi Province|Musashi]], [[Suruga Province|Suruga]], and [[Tōtōmi Province|Tōtōmi]] Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day [[Matsumoto, Nagano|Matsumoto]], which became an important city of the province.
Shinano bordered on [[Echigo Province|Echigo]], [[Etchū Province|Etchū]], [[Hida Province|Hida]], [[Kai Province|Kai]], [[Kōzuke Province|Kōzuke]], [[Mikawa Province|Mikawa]], [[Mino Province|Mino]], [[Musashi Province|Musashi]], [[Suruga Province|Suruga]], and [[Tōtōmi Province|Tōtōmi]] Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day [[Matsumoto, Nagano|Matsumoto]], which became an important city of the province.


The [[World War II]]-era Japanese [[aircraft carrier]] [[Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano|''Shinano'']] was named after this old province.
The [[World War II]]–era Japanese [[aircraft carrier]] [[Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano|''Shinano'']] was named after this old province.


==Historical record==
==Historical record==
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==References==
==References==
* [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [http://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&client=firefox-a ''Japan encyclopedia.''] Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
* [[Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]] and Käthe Roth. (2005). [http://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&client=firefox-a ''Japan encyclopedia'']. Cambridge: [[Harvard University Press]]. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; {{OCLC|58053128}}.
* {{cite book | title=Japanese women poets: an anthology | authors=Hiroaki Sato| year=2008 | publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Inc }}
* {{cite book | title=Japanese women poets: an anthology | authors=Hiroaki Sato| year=2008 | publisher=M.E. Sharpe, Inc }}
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon''] (''[[Nihon Odai Ichiran]]''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://www.worldcat.org/title/nipon-o-dai-itsi-ran-ou-annales-des-empereurs-du-japon/oclc/5850691 OCLC 5850691]
* [[Isaac Titsingh|Titsingh, Isaac]]. (1834). [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran ''Annales des empereurs du Japon''] (''[[Nihon Odai Ichiran]]''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. {{OCLC|5850691}}.


== External links ==
==Other websites==
{{Commons category-inline|Shinano Province}}
{{Commons category|Shinano Province}}
* [http://www.maproom.org/00/05/sub1/1.html Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903]
* [http://www.maproom.org/00/05/sub1/1.html Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903]
* Hokusai, [https://archive.org/details/brooklynmuseum-o53575-a-view-of-mount-fuji-across-lake-suwa ''A View of Mount Fuji across Lake Suwa,''] c. 1831
* Hokusai, [https://archive.org/details/brooklynmuseum-o53575-a-view-of-mount-fuji-across-lake-suwa ''A View of Mount Fuji across Lake Suwa''], c. 1831


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Revision as of 09:46, 10 September 2016

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shinano Province highlighted.

Shinano Province (信濃国, Shinano no kuni) or Shinshū (信州) is an old province of Japan that is now present-day Nagano Prefecture.[1]

Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, which became an important city of the province.

The World War II–era Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was named after this old province.

Historical record

In 713, the road that traverses Mino and Shinano provinces was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers through the Kiso District of modern Nagano Prefecture.[2]

In the Sengoku Period, Shinano Province was often split among fiefs and castle towns developed, including Komoro, Ina, and Ueda. Shinano was one of the major centers of Takeda Shingen's power during his wars with Uesugi Kenshin and others.

Suwa taisha was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) for the province.[3]

In 1871, during the Meiji period, with the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan Chiken) after the Meiji Restoration, Shinano Province was administratively separated in 1871 into Nagano and Chikuma prefectures. These two tentative governmental and territorial units were reconfigured together again in 1876. This became the modern prefecture of Nagano, which remains substantially unchanged since that time.

Historical districts

Shinano Province contained the following districts:

See also

Notes

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128.
  • Japanese women poets: an anthology. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 2008. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |authors= ignored (help)
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.