Yamashiro Province

Map of the Japanese provinces, Yamashiro is highlighted in red

Yamashiro ( Japanese 山城 国 , Yamashiro no kuni ), also called Jōshū ( 城 州 ), Sanshū ( 山 州 ) or Yōshū ( 雍州 ), was one of the historical provinces of Japan . The area is now part of the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture on the island of Honshū .

According to the Gokishichidō division, it was one of the inner provinces (Kinai). In 794 Heian-kyō , today's Kyōto , became the seat of the imperial court and in the Muromachi period also the seat of the Ashikaga shogunate .

For the meaning of the name, see Etymology of the Japanese Castle .

Yamashiro bordered the provinces of Wakasa , Ōmi , Iga , Yamato , Kawachi , Settsu, and Tamba .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kiyoshi Inoue : History of Japan . 2nd Edition. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2002, ISBN 3-88059-994-7 , The Provinces from the Heian to the Edo Period, p. 640 (Japanese: Nihon no rekishi . Translated by Manfred Hubricht).

Coordinates: 34 ° 53 '  N , 135 ° 48'  E