Awa Province (Chiba)

Awa Province (red), now part of Chiba Prefecture

Color woodcut by Hiroshige depicting Kominato Bay in Awa Province

Awa ( Japanese. 安 房 国 , Awa no kuni ), also called Bōshū ( 房 州 ) or less often Anshū ( 安 州 ), was one of the historical provinces of Japan and is now part of Chiba Prefecture .

The province was located at the tip of the Bōsō Peninsula and bordered on the Kazusa Province , from which it was partitioned in 718. Both together are also known as Nansō ( 南 総 , "South Fusa "), after the forerunner province of Kazusa. It consisted of four districts ( kōri ) Asahina ( 朝 夷 郡 , today: Asai-gun ), Awa ( 安 房 郡 ), Heguri ( 平 群 郡 , today: Hei-gun ) and Nagasa ( 長 狭 郡 ).

The provincial capital ( kokufu ) was in the Heguri district. Although their location has not yet been discovered, it is assumed for the district of Fuchū - an alternative name for capital - of Minamibōsō .

There was a province of the same name Awa on the island of Shikoku , which is spelled differently in Japanese .

literature

• Noboru Koyama: Japanese Students At Cambridge University In The Meiji Era, 1868-1912: Pioneers For The Modernization Of Japan . Lulu.com, Tokyo 2004, ISBN 1411612566 , p. 109.
• Jacqueline Ilyse Stone: Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (= Studies in East Asian Buddhism , Volume 12). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 2003, ISBN 0824827716 , p. 243.

Coordinates: 35 ° 10 '  N , 140 ° 1'  E