Kazusa Province
Kazusa ( jap. 上 総 国 , Kazusa no kuni ) was one of the historical provinces of Japan in the area of the Tokyo offshore Bōsō peninsula of the island of Honshū in today's Chiba Prefecture . Kazusa bordered Awa Province and Shimousa Province . Together with Shimousa it is also called Sōshū ( 総 州 ).
history
The province was created in the 7th century by splitting the old province of Fusa ( 総 国 ) into the provinces of Kami-tsu-Fusa ("Upper Fusa") and Shimo-tsu-Fusa ("Lower Fusa"). Towards the end of the 7th century, however, the dialect variants Kazusa and Shimousa prevailed. According to their geographical positions, Kazusa was also called Nansō ( 南 総 , dt. "South Fusa") and Shimousa also Hokusō ( 北 総 , dt. "North Fusa"). Awa is occasionally included under Nansō .
On the 2nd day of the 5th lunar month 718, the southern part with the 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 ) separated as the new province of Awa. On the 10th day of the 12th lunar month in 741 these were reintegrated, but already in 757 outsourced. In 1897 these were all combined to form the Awa-gun.
Provincial capital and temple
The capital ( Kokufu ) was probably at Ichihara . Excavated during the provincial temples of the monks ( 35 ° 29 ′ 49 ″ N , 140 ° 6 ′ 40.1 ″ E ) and that of the nuns ( 35 ° 30 ′ 0.9 ″ N , 140 ° 7 ′ 5.9 ″ E ) the exact location of the administrative headquarters is unknown. But there are 3 candidates:
- During construction work on the Tateyama highway , suitable remains from the Nara and Heian periods were found near the old river bed of the Yōrō-gawa in the Murakami and Sōja districts (where Sōja refers to a shrine mostly located near the capital) .
- Another area in question is the Kōrimoto and Ichihara neighborhoods. So the remains of the district administration were excavated near the Kōrimoto-Hachiman-gū ( 郡 本 八 幡 宮 ) . Furthermore, between the Iigaoka-Hachiman-gū ( 飯 香 岡 八 幡 宮 ) - a Kokufu-Hachiman-gū - and the Asuwa Shrine ( 阿 須 波 神社 , Asuwa-jinja ) there is a Matsuri called Yanagi-Tate-Shinji ( 柳 楯神 事 , German "willow shield ritual"), which is said to have a connection to Kokufu.
- The Nōman district was previously called Fuchū, which also refers to Kokufu. In this part of the city there is the Fuchū-Hiyoshi-Shrine ( 府中 日 吉 神社 , Fuchū-Hiyoshi-jinja ), which was then possibly the administrative seat. Presumably, Noman was the capital only since the Middle Ages, which means that that of antiquity remains unclear.
From the Sengoku period , the Kazusa region was controlled from the Ōtaki castle in Ōtaki .
Fiefdom
| Fiefdom | Daimyō family |
|---|---|
| Goi | Arima |
| Tsurumaki | Mizuno |
| Jozai | Hayashi |
| Iino | Hoshina |
| Ichinomiya | Kanō |
| Sanuki | Naitō → Sakurai-Matsudaira → Nomi-Matsudaira → Abe |
| Kururi | Ōsuga - Matsudaira → Tsuchiya → Kuroda |
| Ōtaki | Honda → Abe → Aoyama → Abe → Inagaki → Ōkōchi-Matsudaira |
Individual evidence
- ↑ asahi-net.or.jp
- ↑ asahi-net.or.jp
- ↑ Fief in Kantō (Japanese)
Coordinates: 35 ° 18 ' N , 140 ° 7' E