Ashigara Prefecture
Ashigara ( Japanese 足 柄 県 Ashigara- ken ) was a prefecture (-ken) in the Japanese provinces of Sagami and Izu from 1871 to 1876 . Their area extended to seven counties (- gun ) in the west of Sagami and all of Izu. It arose after the abolition of the Han (major fiefs / principalities) from the principalities of Odawara and Oginoyamanaka , which were converted into prefectures of the same name for a few months - after eliminating en- and exclaves - as well as the part of Nirayama prefecture in the province of Izu , which has been in existence since the Meiji Restoration 1868 administered former Shogunate countries ( bakuryō ) in the provinces of Izu and Musashi . The prefecture administration of Ashigara was located in what was then the Ashigara-Shimo district ("Lower Ashigara" in contrast to the "Upper Ashigara" district, Ashigara-Kami , inland) in the area of today's independent city (- shi ) Odawara . In 1876 Ashigara was divided: The part in Sagami Province fell to Kanagawa Prefecture , Izu Province initially went entirely to Shizuoka Prefecture ; that of the Izu Peninsula upstream Izu Islands but were in 1878 Tokyo slammed shut.
Web links
- Kanagawa Prefecture Administration: History (Japanese)
- Shizuoka Prefecture Administration: History (Japanese)
- Numazu City Administration: History, Merger of Shizuoka Prefecture with Ashigara and Hamamatsu Prefectures (Japanese)
- Digital Collection of the National Parliamentary Library: Hōrei zensho (collection of all laws and ordinances), Dajōkan decrees 594 of the year Meiji 4 (Gregorian 1871/72) and 53 of the year Meiji 9 (1876) for the establishment and dissolution of the Ashigara prefecture