Kōzuke Province
Kōzuke ( Japanese. 上 野 国 , Kōzuke no kuni ), also: Jōshū ( 上 州 ) or Jōmō ( 上 毛 ), was one of the historical provinces of Japan in the Tōsandō region in the area of today's Gunma Prefecture .
The province emerged from the division of the province of Keno / Kenu into the provinces of Shimo-tsu-Keno / Kenu ( 下 毛 野 国 , German "Province of Unter-Keno") and Kami-tsu-Keno / Kenu ( 上 毛 野 国 , German "Province Ober-Keno "). In 713, an imperial edict shortened the spelling of the provinces to two Kanji , here the first and third characters. However, the pronunciation Kōzuke is associated with sound changes borrowed from the first and second characters.
There are a number of kofun (burial mounds) in the area. Those from the 4th century are between 120 and 130 meters long, which were replaced by larger ones in the 5th century. The most important are the 171 m long Sengenyama-Kofun ( 浅 間 山 古墳 ) in Takasaki from the beginning of the 5th century, the 165 m long Bessho-Chausuyama-Kofun ( 別 所 茶 臼 山 古墳 ) in Ōta a little later and the 210 m long Tenjinyama-Kofun ( 天神 山 古墳 ) also in Ōta from the middle of the 5th century. Since the following are again smaller, the area may have been incorporated into the Yamato Empire (Japan) at that time .
The old provincial capital ( kokufu ) was with the modern Maebashi . In the Sengoku period , Kōzuke was temporarily controlled by Takeda Shingen , Uesugi Kenshin , the Hōjō clan and Tokugawa Ieyasu .
The most important castle town was Takasaki near Maebashi.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Delmer M. Brown: The Yamato kingdom . In: John Whitney Hall (Ed.): The Cambridge History of Japan . Volume 1 Ancient Japan. Cambridge University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-521-22352-0 , pp. 131–132, 154 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ 群 馬 の 遺跡 ・ 出土 品 群 馬 の 遺跡 案 内 . 財 団 法人 群 馬 県 埋 蔵 文化 財 調査 事業 団 / Gunma Archaeological Research Foundation, accessed July 30, 2011 (Japanese).
Coordinates: 36 ° 31 ' N , 139 ° 0' E