Awa Province (Tokushima)
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Awa ( Japanese 阿波 国 , Awa no kuni ) or Ashū ( 阿 州 ) was one of the four historical provinces of Japan on the island of Shikoku . In the Edo period, it was practically completely part of the Principality of Tokushima , from which the Tokushima Prefecture (temporarily Myōdō) arose in the Meiji Restoration, when the principalities were replaced by prefectures . Awa bordered the provinces of Tosa , Sanuki, and Iyo .
In the Edo period, the principality of Tokushima and thus the provinces of Awa and Awaji were ruled by the Hachisuka , who are derived from the Seiwa-Genji . The first to settle in the capital Tokushima Daimyō Hachisuka Iemasa (1558-1638) in 1585 , he was a Christian. His son Yoshishige (1581-1615) fought on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, helped with the siege of Osaka in 1615 and came to a handsome income of 258,000 Koku . After the introduction of the nobility predicates based on the European model ( kazoku ), the head of the house was Margrave.
There was also a province of the same name in today's Chiba Prefecture , Awa , which is spelled differently in Japanese.
literature
- E. Papinot: Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan . Reprint of the original edition from 1910. Tuttle Verlag, 1972, ISBN 0-8048-0996-8 .
Coordinates: 33 ° 56 ' N , 134 ° 15' E