Awa Province (Chiba)
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The province was on the tip of the Boso Peninsula (房総半島).
History
Awa Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō.[3]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Awa Province were reformed in the 1870s.[4]
Shrines and Temples
Awa jinja[5] was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Awa. [6]
Related pages
References
- ↑ Awa Province in Shikoku sounds like it has the same name, but it is written with different kanji (阿波国).
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Awa no Kuni" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 62.
- ↑ Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean (1884). Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, Vol. 6, p. 172; excerpt, Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, Noto, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and Shinano.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Awa-jinja" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 61.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.
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