Keno Province
Keno or Kenu ( Japanese 毛 野 国 , Keno / Kenu no kuni ) was one of the historical provinces of Japan in ancient times . It extended over the present-day prefectures of Gunma and Tochigi .
Sometime before 700 it was split up into the provinces of Shimo-tsu-Keno / Kenu (Eng. "Unter-Keno") in the east and Kami-tsu-Keno / Kenu (Eng. "Upper Keno") in the west. Both were later referred to together as Mōshū ( 毛 州 , German "Keno Provinces").
There are a number of kofun (burial mounds) in the area of Kami-tsu-Keno . 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 smaller again, Kami-tsu-Keno or Keno was possibly incorporated into the Yamato empire (Japan) at that time .
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).