Kōzuke (or Kōtsuke, 上野国, Kōzuke no kuni) was an old province located in the Tōsandō of Japan, which today comprises Gunma Prefecture. It is nicknamed as Jōshū (上州).
The ancient provincial capital was near modern Maebashi. During the Sengoku period, Kōzuke was controlled variously by Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, the late Hōjō clan, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The main town was Takasaki, near Maebashi.
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References
- Kōzuke no kuni in Iwanami Nihonshi Jiten (岩波日本史辞典), CD-Rom Version. Iwanami Shoten, 1999-2001.
External links
- National Archives of Japan: Tatoroyama no ki, survey of limestone cave in Mount Tatoro in Kozuke Province, 1837 (Tenpo 8).
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