Sagami Province
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The province had borders with Izu, Musashi, Suruga provinces. Its Pacific Ocean border included Sagami Bay.
The ancient capital city of the province was near Hiratsuka.
History
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Sagami was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code.
In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between Kyoto and Edo. The road passed through Sagami.[2]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Izu Province were reformed in the 1870s.[3]
All of Sagami became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1876.[1]
In 1906, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Sagami was named after the province.[4]
Shrines and Temples
Samukawa jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Hōki. [5]
Sagami Province Media
Ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige "Sagami" in The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States (六十余州名所図会), depicting Enoshima and Mount Fuji
Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kanagawa" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 466-467.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ Brassey, Thomas Allnutt (1906). Brassey's Annual: the Armed Forces Year-book, p. 24.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-25.
Other websites
Media related to Sagami Province at Wikimedia Commons
