Tokachi Province
Tokachi Province (
History[edit]
In 1820, the explorer Takeshiro Matsuura (
Although the exact origins of "tokapci" were unknown, Hidezo Yamada, an Ainu language researcher, proposed these origins:
- tokap-usi ("breast, somewhere")
- toka-o-pci ("swamp, around a place, either")
After 1869, the northern Japanese island was known as Hokkaido;[1] and regional administrative subdivisions were identified, including Tokachi Province.[2]
- August 15, 1869 Tokachi Province established with 7 districts
- 1872 Census finds a population of 1,464
- 1882 Provinces dissolved in Hokkaidō
Districts[edit]
- Hiroo (
広尾 郡 ) - Tōbui (
当 縁 郡 ) - dissolved April 1, 1906 when 3 villages merged into Moyori Village (now Hiroo Town) in Hirō District and two villages merged with Ōtsu Village in Tokachi District - Kamikawa (
上川 郡 ) - Nakagawa (
中川 郡 ) - Katō (
河東 郡 ) - Kasai (
河西 郡 ) - Tokachi (
十勝 郡 )
Notes[edit]
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hokkaido" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 343, p. 343, at Google Books.
- ^ Satow, Ernest. (1882). "The Geography of Japan" in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vols. 1-2, p. 88., p. 33, at Google Books
References[edit]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128