Toshima gun

This article describes the former Japanese district of Musashi / Tokyo, for the former district of Ugo / Akita of the same name, see Kawabe-gun (Akita) .

1st – 19th: Parishes in the Kita-Toshima-gun of Tōkyō-fu from 1889; 20th: Ōizumi-mura was only added in 1891, the area previously belonged to the Niikura-gun of Saitama-ken ; 1932-1943 were all part of Tōkyō-shi ; Today's municipalities in surface colors : pink Arakawa-ku , purple Kita-ku , blue Toshima-ku , orange Itabashi-ku , yellow / ocher Nerima-ku

1. – 8 .: Parishes in Minami-Toshima-gun of Tōkyō-fu from 1889, part of the area that is colored but without numbers: until 1889 part of South / Toshima, then to the city of Tokyo; Today's parishes in surface colors: blue Shinjuku-ku , purple Shibuya-ku (11th – 16th are the parishes in East Tama 1889, see also Toyotama-gun )

Toshima ( Japanese 豊 島 郡 , Toshima-gun or historically Toshima no kōri ) was a district ( gun / kōri ) of the Japanese Ritsuryō province of Musashi . It existed until 1878 and was completely located in today's prefecture (-to) Tokyo .

Before the 17th century, when the Tokugawa were entrusted with the shogunate over the whole country after the final victory in the civil war ( Sekigahara ) and Edo became the seat of government, Edo also belonged to Toshima. In the Edo period, the majority of the district belonged to Shogunate and Hatamoto countries ( bakuryō ) . After the fall of the Tokugawa and the Meiji Restoration , Toshima was briefly administered from 1868 by the united Musashi governors (Musashi chikenji) , who ruled most of the former shogunate countries in the province without the Edo renamed Tokyo , then divided between several prefectures and finally came to Tokyo entirely in the first big wave of prefectural mergers in 1871. In the wake of the circles as a modern administrative unit in 1878, he was in the districts of North Toshima ( Kita-Toshima ) and South Toshima ( Minami-Toshima shared) with the district towns Shimo-Itabashi and Naito-Shinjuku.