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Sanuki Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Sanuki Province highlighted

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The province had borders with Awa and Iyo Provinces.

History

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Sanuki Province were reformed in the 1870s.[2]

Geography

Sanuki faced the Seto Inland Sea.

Shrines and Temples

Tamura jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Sanuki. [3]

Gallery

  • View of Takamatsu castle in Sanuki Province, photograph, 1882

  • List of ichinomiya at Tamura Shrine which was the ichinomiya of Sanuki Province

Sanuki Province Media

  • Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Sanuki" in "Sixty-eight Views of the Provinces" (諸国六十八景)

Related pages

References

  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Sanuki" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 823.
  2. ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  3. ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

  Media related to Sanuki Province at Wikimedia Commons




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