or is an
old province of
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that is now
Nagano Prefecture
is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture ...
.
Shinano bordered
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
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-era Japanese
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''Shinano'' was named after this old province.
Historical record
In 713, the road that traverses
Mino and Shinano provinces was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers through the
Kiso District of modern Nagano Prefecture.
In the
Sengoku period, Shinano Province was often split among fiefs and 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.
During the
Azuchi–Momoyama period, after Nobunaga's assassination at
Honnō-ji Incident, the province was contested between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the
Go-Hōjō clan based in
Odawara castle. The
Tokugawa clan, The
Uesugi clan and the
Hōjō clan each aspired to seize the vast area in Shinano Province,
Ueno region, and
Kai Province, which ruled by the remnants of the many small clans formerly serving the Takeda clan. Following of disorder post death of Nobunaga, at the same time with Ieyasu departure an army of 8,000 soldiers to those disputed region. This caused the triangle conflict between those three factions in the event which dubbed by historians as
Tenshō-Jingo War broke out.
As the war turned in favor of Tokugawa clan, combined with the defection of
Sanada Masayuki to the Tokugawa faction, the Hōjō clan now negotiate truce with Ieyasu and The Go-Hōjō clan then sent Hōjō Ujinobu as representative, while the Tokugawa sent Ii Naomasa as representative for the preliminary meetings. Furthermore, In October, representatives from the Oda clan such as
Oda Nobukatsu,
Oda Nobutaka, and Toyotomi mediated the negotiation until the truce officially concluded.
Suwa taisha was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (''
ichinomiya'') for the province.
"Nationwide List of ''Ichinomiya''," p. 2.
retrieved 2011-08-010
In 1871, during the Meiji period, with the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefecture
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s (''Haihan Chiken'') after the Meiji Restoration
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, Shinano Province's ex-domains/1871 prefectures and ex-shogunate territories/1868 prefectures (mainly Ina Matsumoto">Matsumoto_Domain.html" ;"title="erger of several shogunate demesne administrations with parts of Matsumoto Okutono, Iwamurada, Komoro, Ueda, Matsushiro, Suzaka, Iiyama, Suwa/Takashima, Takatō, Shinano-Iida Domain">Iida, Matsumoto Domain">Matsumoto) and Takayama Prefecture">Takayama/Hida which covered Hida Province">Takatō Domain">Takatō, Shinano-Iida Domain">Iida, Matsumoto Domain">Matsumoto) and Takayama Prefecture">Takayama/Hida which covered Hida Province were administratively merged into Nagano (initially Nakano Prefecture in 1870) and Chikuma Prefecture, Chikuma Prefectures of Japan, prefectures. The seat of the prefectural government of Nakano was Nakano town from Takai District (became Nakano City in 1954), Nagano's prefectural capital was Nagano town in Minochi District (→ Nagano City in 1897), and Chikuma's capital was Matsumoto town, Chikuma district ( Matsumoto City from 1907). In the second wave of prefectural mergers in 1875/76, Chikuma was split again: the Western part covering Hida Province was merged into Gifu, and the Eastern part in Shinano became part of Nagano. Since that time, Nagano is essentially contiguous to Shinano.
Historical districts
Shinano Province consisted of sixteen districts:
* Nagano Prefecture
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** Azumi District (安曇郡)
*** Kitaazumi District (北安曇郡)
*** Minamiazumi District (南安曇郡) – dissolved
** Chiisagata District (小県郡)
** Chikuma District (筑摩郡)
*** Higashichikuma District (東筑摩郡)
*** Nishichikuma District (西筑摩郡) – renamed as Kiso District (木曽郡) on May 1, 1968
** Hanishina District (埴科郡)
** Minochi District (水内郡)
*** Kamiminochi District (上水内郡)
*** Shimominochi District (下水内郡)
** Saku District (佐久郡)
*** Kitasaku District (北佐久郡)
*** Minamisaku District (南佐久郡)
** Sarashina District (更級郡) – dissolved
** Takai District (高井郡)
*** Kamitakai District (上高井郡)
*** Shimotakai District (下高井郡)
* Former Suwa Province:
** Ina District (伊那郡)
*** Kamiina District (上伊那郡)
*** Shimoina District (下伊那郡)
** Suwa District (諏訪郡)
See also
* Tomono clan
* Iiyama Domain
* Suzaka Domain
* Matsushiro Domain
* Ueda Domain
* Komoro Domain
* Matsumoto Domain
* Okutono Domain
* Suwa Domain
* Takatō Domain
* Ōhama Domain
Appendix
Footnotes
References
Bibliography
*
*
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''
Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; .
*
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''
('' Nihon Ōdai Ichiran''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. .
External links
Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
* Hokusai
''A View of Mount Fuji across Lake Suwa''
c. 1831
* Ishida Satoshi: Maps of prefectures in Central Japa
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History of Nagano Prefecture