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province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...
of
Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
, located in Kinai, corresponding to present-day
Nara Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the northwest, Wakaya ...
in
Honshū , historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island sepa ...
. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Yamato" in . It was also called . Yamato consists of two characters, 大 "great", and 和 " Wa". At first, the name was written with one different character (), but due to its offensive connotation, for about ten years after 737, this was revised to use more desirable characters () (see
Names of Japan The word ''Japan'' is an exonym, and is used (in one form or another) by many languages. The Japanese language, Japanese names for Japan are Nippon () and Nihon (). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji . During the third-century CE T ...
). The final revision was made in the second year of the Tenpyō-hōji era (c. 758). It is classified as a great province in the '' Engishiki''. The Yamato Period in the
history of Japan The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inve ...
refers to the late
Kofun Period The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
(c. 250–538) and
Asuka Period The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after ...
(538–710). Japanese archaeologists and historians emphasize the fact that during the early Kofun Period the Yamato Kingship was in close contention with other regional powers, such as Kibi Province near present-day Okayama Prefecture. Around the 6th century, the local chieftainship gained national control and established the Imperial court in Yamato Province. The battleship , the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet during
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
, was named after this ancient province.


Capital

During the
Kofun period The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
(300 to 538) and the
Asuka period The was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 (or 592 to 645), although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved greatly during the Asuka period, which is named after ...
, many palace capitals were located in Kashihara, Asuka, and Sakurai. Yamato was the first central government of the unified country in the
Kofun period The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period. The Kofun and the subsequent Asuka periods are sometimes collectively called the Yamato period. This period is ...
.
Heijō-kyō was the Capital of Japan during most of the Nara period, from 710 to 740 and again from 745 to 784. The imperial palace is a listed UNESCO World Heritage together with other places in the city of Nara (cf. Historic Monuments of Ancient ...
capital was placed in
Nara City is the capital city of Nara Prefecture, Japan. As of 2022, Nara has an estimated population of 367,353 according to World Population Review, making it the largest city in Nara Prefecture and sixth-largest in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara is ...
during the Nara period. In the 14th century, the capital of the Southern Court was established in Yoshino and Anou.


Temples

The
provincial temple were Buddhist temples established in each of the provinces of Japan by Emperor Shōmu during the Nara period (710 – 794). History Shōmu (701 – 756?) decreed both a ''kokubun-ji'' for monks and a for nuns to be established in ea ...
for monks is popularly thought to have been Tōdai-ji, but it may have in fact been a different one in Kashihara. The one for nuns was Hokke-ji. The primary shrine was Sakurai's Ōmiwa Shrine, but there have been no records stating as such found at the shrine itself. There were no secondary shrines. The
sōja is a city located in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. As of 2020, the city has an estimated population of 69,343 and a population density of 322 persons per km2. The total area is 211.90 km2. History In the 7th century, Ki Castle was built ...
(or principal Shinto shrine in the province) was Kokufu Shrine (Takatori, Takaichi,
Nara The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an " independent federal agency of the United States government within the executive branch", charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It ...
).


''

Kami are the deities, divinities, spirits, phenomena or "holy powers", that are venerated in the Shinto religion. They can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, or beings and the qualities that these beings express; they can also be the sp ...
'' of Yamato

* Minamoto no Shigetoki * Minamoto no Suetō * Utsunomiya Nobufusa * Oda Hidanaga * Oda Toshisada * Oda Tatsusada * Oda Tatsukatsu * Mitsuki Naoyori * Honjō Fusanaga * Tōyama Kagetō * Jushii-ge Nakai Masakiyo *Jushii-ge Matsudaira Tomonori *Jushii-ge Matsudaira Naotsune * Jugoi-ge Kanō Hisachika *Jushii-ge Matsudaira Naonobu *Jushii-ge Matsudaira Tsunenori *Jushii-ge Matsudaira Naoyoshi


Districts


Domains

* Yagyū Domain *
Kōriyama Domain is a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. , the city has an estimated population of 322,996 people in 141760 households, and a population density of 430 persons per km2. The total area of the city is . Kōriyama is designated as a core city ...
* Koizumi Domain * Yanagimoto Domain * Kaijū Domain / Shibamura Domain * Kujira Domain * Uda-Matsuyama Domain * Takatori Domain * Okidome Domain * Tatsuta Domain * Tawaramoto Domain * Kishida Domain * Yamato-Shinjō Domain * Gose Domain * Yamato-Gojō Domain


See also

*
Yamataikoku Yamatai or Yamatai-koku is the Sino-Japanese name of an ancient country in Wa (Japan) during the late Yayoi period The Chinese text ''Records of the Three Kingdoms'' first recorded the name as () or (; using reconstructed Middle Chinese p ...
* Yoshino Province * List of Provinces of Japan * List of Han * Yamato period * * Yamato people (Japanese) * Yamato-damashii - 'the Japanese spirit' * Thirteen Buddhist Sites of Yamato


Notes


References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge:
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.
OCLC 58053128


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{{Gokishichidō Former provinces of Japan