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Shinano Province

Shinano Province (信濃しなの国こく, Shinano no kuni) or Shinshū (信州しんしゅう) is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture.[1]

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shinano Province highlighted.

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.[citation needed]

Historical record

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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.[2]

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 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. 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 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.[3][a] 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.[6] and The Hōjō clan then sent Hōjō Ujinobu as representative, while the Tokugawa sent Ii Naomasa as representative for the pre eliminary meetings.[7][8] Furthermore, In October, representatives from the Oda clan such as Oda Nobukatsu, Oda Nobutaka, and Toyotomi mediated the negotiation until the truce officially concluded.[9]

Suwa taisha was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) for the province.[10]

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's ex-domains/1871 prefectures and ex-shogunate territories/1868 prefectures (mainly Ina [merger of several shogunate demesne administrations with parts of Matsumoto], Okutono, Iwamurada, Komoro, Ueda, Matsushiro, Suzaka, Iiyama, Suwa/Takashima, Takatō, Iida, Matsumoto) and Takayama/Hida which covered Hida Province were administratively merged into Nagano (initially Nakano Prefecture in 1870) and Chikuma 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

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Shinano Province consisted of sixteen districts:

See also

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Appendix

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ The name of "Tenshō-Jingo War" was coined by Tashiro Takashi in 1980.[4] Furthermore, is also a theory that from the perspective that local powers which continued to fight over the possession of the Oda clan's leftover territories, there is evidence that Tokugawa Ieyasu's transfer to the Kantō region region following the fall of the Hōjō clan in 1590 and the placement of Toyotomi-line daimyo, until transfer of Uesugi Kagekatsu to Aizu, where the local daimyo were separated from their former territory and the establishment of control by the Azuchi–Momoyama period, was considered to be the extension of this conflict.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Ōmi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 863, p. 863, at Google Books.
  2. ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annalles des empereurs du japon, p. 64., p. 64, at Google Books
  3. ^ Masaru Hirayama (2016). "天正てんしょう壬みずのえ午うまの乱らん【増補ぞうほ改訂かいてい版ばん】─本能寺ほんのうじの変へんと東国とうごく戦国せんごく史し" [Tensho Migo Rebellion [revised and enlarged edition] - Honnoji Incident and the history of the Sengoku period in the Togoku region] (in Japanese). Ebisukosyo. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  4. ^ Okamoto Ryoichi (岡本おかもと亮一りょういち) (1982). 日本にっぽん城郭じょうかく史し研究けんきゅう叢書そうしょ 第だい8巻かん 大坂おおさか城じょうの諸しょ研究けんきゅう [Japanese Castle History Research Series Vol. 8 Various Studies on Osaka Castle] (in Japanese). 名著めいちょ出版しゅっぱん. pp. 412–413. ISBN 4404010362. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  5. ^ Okamoto Ryoichi (岡本おかもと亮一りょういち) (1982, pp. 41–42)
  6. ^ Masaru Hirayama (2016). 真田さなだ信之のぶゆき : 父ちちの知略ちりゃくに勝かった決断けつだん力りょく (in Japanese). PHP研究所けんきゅうじょ. ISBN 9784569830438. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  7. ^ Aida Nirō (1976). 日本にっぽん古文書こもんじょ学がくの諸しょ問題もんだい (in Japanese). 名著めいちょ出版しゅっぱん. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  8. ^ 千葉ちば琢みがく穂ほ (1989). 藤原ふじわら氏し族ぞく系図けいず 6 [Fujiwara clan genealogy 6]. 展望てんぼう社しゃ. p. 227. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  9. ^ Kazuhiro Marushima (丸島まるしま和洋わよう) (2015). "北条ほうじょう・徳川とくがわ間あいだ外交がいこうの意思いし伝達でんたつ構造こうぞう" [The structure of communication in diplomacy between the Hojo and Tokugawa]. 国文学研究資料館こくぶんがくけんきゅうしりょうかん紀要きよう. 11 (11). 国文学研究資料館こくぶんがくけんきゅうしりょうかん: 33–52. doi:10.24619/00001469. ISSN 1880-2249.
  10. ^ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2.; retrieved 2011-08-010

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