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Comparison of past and present administrative divisions of Japan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The geography and administrative subdivisions of Japan have evolved and changed during the course of its history. These were sometimes grouped according to geographic position.[1][2]

Kinai

Tōkaidō

Tōkaidō literally means 'Eastern Sea Way'.[3] The term also identifies a series of roads connecting the 15 provincial capitals of the region.[4]

Tōsandō

The Tōsandō is a region which straddles the central mountains of northern Honshū.[5] The descriptive name also refers to a series of roads connecting the provincial capitals.[4] Tōsandō included Musashi Province after 711.[5]

Hokurikudō

  • Wakasa
  • Echizen (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Kaga (created in 823 from Echizen)
  • Noto (created in 718 from Echizen, then occupied in 741 by Etchū, later re-split in 757 from Etchū)
  • Etchū (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Echigo (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Sado (occupied in 743 by Echigo, later re-split in 752)

San'indō

San'yōdō

Nankaidō

Saikaidō

Hokkaidō

Notes

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt, "Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."
  2. ^ Henry Smith's Home Page http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/19th/kuni_vs_ken.gif
  3. ^ Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973, p. 973, at Google Books.
  4. ^ a b Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
  5. ^ a b Nussbaum, "Tōsandō" at p. 988, p. 988, at Google Books.

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Ōdai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
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