was an old province of

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in the area of

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

, roughly corresponding to

Kumage Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The subprefectural office is located in Nishinoomote. It includes the following cities and towns on the Ōsumi Islands: *Kumage Subprefecture ** Nishinoomote (city on Tanegashima and Mageshim ...

History

Kofun burial mounds on

Tanegashima is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, 444.99 km2 in area, is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands, and has a population of 33,000 people. Access to the island is by ferry, or by air to Ne ...

and two very old Shinto shrines on

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suggest that these islands were the southern border of the Yamato state. Annals of the Nara period regard Tane-no-kuni as the name for all the

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, including Tanegashima and Yakushima.Nussbaum, "''Yakushima''" at . * 675 : The ''

Shoku Nihongi The is an imperially-commissioned Japanese history text. Completed in 797, it is the second of the '' Six National Histories'', coming directly after the '' Nihon Shoki'' and followed by '' Nihon Kōki''. Fujiwara no Tsugutada and Sugano no Ma ...

'' records, " Satsuma and Tane broke the relation and disobey to the king's order. So (the government) sent an army, conquered them, counted the population, and placed the officials." This marks the establishment of the Satsuma and Tane Provinces. * 824 ('' Tenchō 1''): Tane was annexed to Ōsumi Province. Jhomonsugi in Yaku Island Japan 001

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References

* Beillevaire, Patrick. (2000). ''Ryūkyū Studies to 1854: Western Encounter,'' Vol. 1. London: Taylor & Francis. ;
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* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge:

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