Mino Province
Mino Province | |
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pre-Meiji period Japan | |
701–1871 | |
![]() Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Mino Province highlighted | |
Capital | Tarui |
Area | |
• Coordinates | 35°22′39″N 136°31′26″E / 35.37750°N 136.52389°E |
History | |
• Ritsuryō system | 701 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
Today part of | Gifu Prefecture |
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Mino Province (
Historical record
[edit]"Mino" is an ancient place name, and appears in mokkan wooden tags from the ruins of Asuka-kyō, Fujiwara-kyō, and other ancient sites, but using the kanji "
The Nihon Shoki and Shoku Nihongi indicates that numerous immigrants from the Hata clan and from Silla settled in Mino in the Asuka and Nara periods.
During the Kamakura and Muromachi Period, the Toki clan held the position of shugo of Mino Province. During the Sengoku period, Saitō Dōsan usurped political power from the Toki, and later the province was conquered by Oda Nobunaga. The Battle of Sekigahara took place at the western edge of Mino, near the mountains between the Chūbu Region and the Kinki Region. With the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate, several feudal domains were established in Mino. At the time of the Meiji restoration, Mino was divided into 18 districts, which in turn were divided into 131 subdistricts and 1561 villages. The total assessed kokudaka of the province was 654,872 koku.
Historical districts
[edit]Mino Province consisted of twenty-one districts:
- Gifu Prefecture
- Anpachi District (
安八 郡 ) - absorbed parts of Taki District; but lost parts to Kaisai and Shimoishizu Districts to become Kaizu District (海津 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Atsumi District (
厚見 郡 ) - merged with Kakami and parts of Katagata Districts to become Inaba District (稲葉 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Ena District (
恵那 郡 ) - dissolved - Fuwa District (
不破 郡 ) - Gujō District (
郡上 郡 ) - dissolved - Haguri District (
羽栗 郡 ) - merged with Nakashima District to become Hashima District (羽島 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Ikeda District (
池田 郡 ) - merged with parts of Ōno (Mino) Districts to become Ibi District (揖斐 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Ishizu District (
石津 郡 )- Kamiishizu District (
上石津 郡 ) - merged with parts of Taki District to become Yōrō District (養老 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Shimoishizu District (
下石 津 郡 ) - merged with Kaisai and parts of Anpachi Districts to become Kaizu District on April 1, 1896
- Kamiishizu District (
- Kaisai District (
海 西郡 ) - merged with Shimoishizu and parts of Anpachi Districts to become Kaizu District on April 1, 1896 - Kakami District (
各務 郡 ) - merged with Atsumi and parts of Katagata Districts to become Inaba District on April 1, 1896 - Kamo District (
加茂 郡 ) - Kani District (
可児 郡 ) - Katagata District (
石津 郡 ) - dissolved to split and merged into parts of Inaba, Motosu and Yamagata Districts on April 1, 1896 - Mugi District (
武儀 郡 ) - dissolved - Mushiroda District (
席 田 郡 ) - merged with former Motosu, parts of Katagata and parts of Ōno (Mino) Districts to become Motosu District (本巣 郡 ) on April 1, 1896 - Nakashima District (
中島 郡 ) - merged with Haguri District to become Hashima District on April 1, 1896 - Ōno District (Mino) (
大野 郡 ) - dissolved to split and merged into parts of Motosu and Ibi Districts on April 1, 1896 - Taki District (
石津 郡 ) - dissolved to split and merged into parts of Yōrō and Anpachi Districts on April 1, 1896 - Toki District (
土岐 郡 ) - dissolved - Yamagata District (
山県 郡 ) - absorbed parts of Katagata District on April 1, 1896; now dissolved
- Anpachi District (
Shugo
[edit]Below is an incomplete list of the shugo who controlled Mino Province and the years of their control:
Kamakura shogunate
[edit]- Ōuchi Koreyoshi (
大内 惟義 ), 1187–1211 - Ōuchi Korenobu (
大内 惟信 ), until 1221 - Utunomiya Yasutsuna (
宇都宮 泰 綱 ), from 1252 - Hōjō clan, from 1285
- Hōjō Tokimura (
北条 時 村 ), 1296–1300 - Hōjō Masataka (
北条 政 高 ), until 1333
Muromachi shogunate
[edit]- Toki Yorisada (
土岐 頼 貞 ), 1336–1339[3] - Toki Yoritō (
土岐 頼 遠 ), 1339–1342 - Toki Yoriyasu (
土岐 頼康 ), 1342–1387 - Toki Yasuyuki (
土岐 康行 ), 1387–1389 - Toki Yoritada (
土岐 頼 忠 ), 1390–1394 - Toki Yorimasu (
土岐 頼 益 ), 1395–1414 - Toki Mochimasu (
土岐 持 益 ), 1422–1465 - Toki Shigeyori (
土岐 成 頼 ), 1468–1495 - Toki Masafusa (
土岐 政 房 ), 1495–1519 - Toki Yorinari (
土岐 頼 芸 ), 1519–1542[4]
Edo period Domains
[edit]Name | HQ | Daimyō & kokudaka |
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Ōgaki Domain | Ōgaki Castle |
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Ōgaki Shinden Domain | Hatamura jin'ya |
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Gujō Domain | Gujō Hachiman Castle |
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Kanō Domain | Kanō Castle |
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Iwamura Domain | Iwamura Castle |
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Naegi Domain | Naegi Castle |
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Takatomi Domain | Takatomi jin'ya |
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Imao Domain | Imao Castle Imao jin'ya |
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Takasu Domain | Takasu Castle Takasu jin'ya |
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Kurono Domain | Kurono Castle |
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Ibi Domain | Ibi Castle |
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Kaneyama Domain |
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Kozuchi Domain | Ogurayama Castle |
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Jushichijo Domain | Jushichijo Castle |
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Aono Domain | Aono jin'ya |
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Seki Domain | Seki jin'ya |
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Kiyomizu Domain | Kiyomisu Castle |
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Iwataki Domain | Iwataki Jin'ya |
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Tokuno Domain | Tokuno jin'ya |
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Nomura Domain |
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Mino-Hasegawa Domain |
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Mino-Wakisaka Domain |
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Geography
[edit]Mino and Owari provinces were separated by the Sakai River, which means "border river."
Notes
[edit]- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mino" in Japan Encyclopedia at Google Books.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 64., p. 64, at Google Books
- ^ "Toki clan" at Sengoku-expo.net; retrieved 2013-5-10.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Saitō Dōsan" at p. 809.
References
[edit]- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.
Other websites
[edit] Media related to Mino Province at Wikimedia Commons