Aki-gun (Hiroshima)

Aki ( Japanese 安 芸 郡 , - gun ) is a district (-gun) of the western Japanese prefecture of Hiroshima , before the establishment of the ancient province ( kuni ) Aki . In between, the area was de facto part of feudal rulers, most recently in the Edo period completely part of the fiefdom (- han ) Hiroshima given to the Asano . In contrast to European feudalism, the Han were primarily determined by a given income ( kokudaka ), not a given territory; provinces and districts remained in use as a geographical division through the Middle Ages and the early modern period up to the 20th century and in some cases even to this day.

Today Aki County still consists of four parishes, originally it also comprised considerable parts of today's independent cities (- shi ) Hiroshima , Kure and Etajima .

At the beginning of the Meiji period, there were 48 premodern parishes in the district. After the districts were reactivated as an administrative unit in 1878, when parts of the old Aki district were separated and added to the newly created city district ( -ku ) Hiroshima, the district still consisted of 38 villages. The district administration of Aki was initially in Kaitaichi (today Kaita ), later in Washō (today Kure ). When the municipal level was reorganized in all prefectures in 1888/89, one town (- chō ) and 29 village communities (- son ) were set up in Aki County. Since the 20th century, Aki lost a large part of its territory through incorporations in or re-establishment of independent cities, especially Hiroshima in the west and Kure in the south. Only in 1951 the district grew around the village of Kumanoato , which previously belonged to Kamo County , but which was also incorporated into the city of Hiroshima in 1974.

Since 2005 the district still consists of four communities, all four today -chō :

• Foxu ,
• Kaita ,
• Kumano and
• Saka .

The Aki district is now divided into three non-contiguous parts by the Aki district of the city of Hiroshima;

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kokuritsu rekishi minzoku hakubutsukan ( 国立歴 史 民俗 博物館 , National Museum of Japanese History ): 旧 高 旧 領取 調帳 デ ー タ ベ ー ス , database entries for Aki Province, Aki County
2. ↑ Ishida Satoshi, 地理 デ ー タ 集 ( Shift_JIS -coded): 郡 の 変 遷 （中国 地方） ; see also 第 １ 次 府 県 統 合 後 の 国 郡 ・ 府 県 （1871 年 12 月末） 備 中国 ・ 備 後 国 ・ 安芸国 ／ 深 津 県 ・ 広 島 県 and 郡 区 町 村 編制 法 下 の （郡 ・ 区 区 の （郡 ・ 区広 島 県 for maps of the city and county division of the provinces Aki, Bingo and Bitchū (or after the first prefectural amalgamation: the prefectures of Hiroshima and Fukatsu) in the Meiji period