Sado Province
Sado Province (
History
[change | change source]Sado Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō.[2]
In 1221, Emperor Juntoku was sent into exile on Sado Island.[3] The former emperor is sometimes identified as Sado-no In (
In the Edo period, Gold was discovered and mined. The Sado mines were added to the tentative World Heritage List in 2010.[5]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Sado Province were reformed in the 1870s.[6]
Geography
[change | change source]Sado is an island in the Sea of Japan. It was off the coast of Echigo Province.
Shrines and Temples
[change | change source]Watatsu-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Sado. [7]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Sado" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 803.
- ↑ Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean (1884). Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, Vol. 6, p. 172; excerpt, Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, Noto, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and Shinano
- ↑ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs, p. 258.
- ↑ Bornoff, Nicholas. (2005). National Geographic Traveler Japan, p. 193.
- ↑ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), "The Sado complex of heritage mines, primarily gold mines". Retrieved 2011-1-20.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-1-17.
Other websites
[change | change source]Media related to Sado Province at Wikimedia Commons