Mikawa Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Mikawa Province highlighted

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Mikawa had borders with Owari, Mino, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Provinces.

History

 
View of Mikawa Province, woodblock print

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 Mikawa.[2]

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Mikawa Province were reformed in the 1870s.[3]

Shrines and Temples

Toga jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Mikawa. [4]

Related pages

References

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mikawa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 629.
  2. Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
  3. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  4. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-19.

Other websites

  Media related to Mikawa Province at Wikimedia Commons



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