Shinano Province (信濃国 Shinano no kuni) is an old province of Japan that is now present day Nagano Prefecture. Its abbreviation is Shinshū (信州).
Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, which became an important city of the province.
The World War II–era Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano was named after this old province.
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Historical record
In 713, the road which traverses Mino Province and Shinano Province was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers through the Kiso District of modern Nagano Prefecture.[1]
In the Sengoku Period, Shinano Province was often split among several fiefs and several other castle towns developed, including Komoro, Ina, and Ueda. Shinano was one of the major centers of Takeda Shingen's power during his wars with Uesugi Kenshin and others.
In 1871, during the Meiji period, with the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan Chiken) after the Meiji Restoration, Shinano Province was administratively separated in 1871 into Nagano and Chikuma prefectures. These two tentative governmental and territorial units were then reconfigured together again in 1876. This became the modern prefecture of Nagano, which remains substantially unchanged since that time.
Former districts
Shinano Province contained the following districts:
- Azumi District (安曇郡): became Kitaazumi and (the now dissolved) Minamiazumi districts
- Chiisagata District (小県郡)
- Chikuma District (筑摩郡): became Higashichikuma and Nishichikuma (now Kiso) districts
- Hanishina District (埴科郡)
- Ina District (伊那郡): became Kamiina and Shimoina districts
- Minochi District (水内郡): became Kamiminochi and Shimominochi districts
- Saku District (佐久郡): became Kitasaku and Minamisaku districts
- Sarashina District (更級郡)
- Suwa District (諏訪郡)
- Takai District (高井郡): became Kamitakai and Shimotakai districts
Notes
- ^ Titsingh, p. 64.
References
- Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.
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