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  Province
The population of the province is 1,557,968 (2002).
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 Provinces of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Provinces as part of the address system, meanwhile, were not abolished but, on the contrary, augumented.
As of 1871, the number of prefectures was 304, while the number of provinces was 68, not including Hokkaido and.
Provinces are classified into kinai (within the capital), and seven or eight do (routes, or circuits).
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 Shinano Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchu, Hida, Kai, Kozuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Totomi provinces.
The ancient capital was located near modern Matsumoto, which became an important city of the province.
In 1871 with the abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan Chiken) after the Meiji Restoration, Shinano province was split into Nagano and Chikuma prefectures.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shinano_province   (176 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Provinces of Japan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As of 1871, the number of prefectures was 304, while the number of provinces was 68, not including Hokkaido and Ryukyu Province.
Gokishichido (five provinces and seven outer areas 五畿七道) was the name for ancient administrative units in Japan controlled by the Yamato court and borrowed from China.
Tsushima (対馬, Korean Daema) was a province of Japan until the abolition of provinces and establishment of prefectures.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Provinces-of-Japan   (3424 words)

  
 Sanada Masayuki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the third son of Sanada Yukitaka, a vassal daimyo to the Takeda family in Shinano province.
In 1577, immediately after Uesugi Kenshin's death, Masayuki took advantage of the internal turmoil within the Uesugi clan and seized Numata Castle in Kozuke province, an act that first demonstrated his abilities.
The Sanada clan was quickly left alone in Shinano province, surrounded by hostile powers such as the Uesugi clan, the Hojo clan, and the Tokugawa clan.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanada_Masayuki   (583 words)

  
 Provinces: An Overview
This province is dominated by two large hills, either side of a wide bowl valley with a small village in the center.
Forested slopes to the eastern or western edges of this province, and the rest of the terrain is mostly flat.
With mountains at the extremities, this province is a wide valley surrounded by high hills in the west, and low hills in the east.
www.totalwar.org /hosted/TotalwarShogun/strats/provinces/provinceoverview.html   (3270 words)

  
 Echigo Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Echigo (越後国; -no kuni) was an old province in north-central Japan, on the Sea of Japan side.
It bordered on Uzen, Iwashiro, Kozuke, Shinano, and Etchu provinces.
Today the area is known as Niigata prefecture combined with Sado province.
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 Obata-Ôi
Nobuyasu was a younger brother of Oda Nobuhide and held Inuyama Castle in Owari Province.
Nobunaga continued his father's forays into Mikawa Province and clashed with the Imagawa of Suruga and Tôtômi and was defeated at Terabe in 1558 by the young Matsudaira Motoyasu (the future Tokugawa Ieyasu and a vassal of the Imagawa).
In 1568 Nobutaka was married to a daughter of Kanbe Tomomori and later became the head of the Kanbe house of Ise Province.
www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/o1.html   (6771 words)

  
 JAPAN - LoveToKnow Article on JAPAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The provinces of Hida and Etchiu are bounded on the east by a chain of mountains including, or having in their immediate vicinity, the highest peaks in Japan after Fuji.
In the province of Settsu granite everywhere predominates, which may be observed also in the railway cuttings between Hiogo and Osaka, as well as in the temples and walls of these towns.
But in the mountainous provinces of the interior and in those along the western coast, deep snow covers the ground throughout the whole winter, and the sky is usually wrapped in a veil of clouds.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /J/JA/JAPAN.htm   (19610 words)

  
 Shimotsuke Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
下野国; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan, which today composes Tochigi prefecture.
The ancient capital of the province was near the city of Tochigi, but in feudal times the main center of the province was near the modern capital, Utsunomiya.
Different parts of Shimotsuke were held by a variety of small daimyo during the Sengoku period.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Shimotsuke_Province   (143 words)

  
 Read about Provinces of Japan at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Provinces of Japan and learn about Provinces of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Under the rule of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the provinces as administrative units were totally replaced with daimyos' territorries.
The boundaries between the many prefectures were not only very complicated but they did not match those of the provinces.
Yamashiro 山城国 (formerly also written as 山背国 or 山代国; this is the province in which
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 [Muromachi Era - Jidai no Mugen Heika] - [Japan]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The farm is near the southern part of the province, near the water.
Located in the western part of the province, this small city is often called the capital city.
The capital city of the Nambu clan, this city is in the far north of the province.
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 ipedia.com: Provinces of Japan Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the Edo Era, the function of provinces as administrative units was effectively and gradually supplanted by the Han territories.
As of 1871, the number of prefectures was 304, while the number of provinces was 68, aside from Hokkaido and Ryukyu Province.
Provinces are classified into Kinai (in capital) and seven or eight do (routes, or circuitss).
www.ipedia.com /provinces_of_japan.html   (703 words)

  
 Kozuke Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kozuke (上野国; Kōzuke-no kuni) was an old province located in Tosando of Japan, which today composes Gunma prefecture.
During the Sengoku period, Kozuke was controlled variously by Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin, the Hojo clan, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.
This page was last modified 04:26, 12 October 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kozuke_Province   (71 words)

  
 Hôjô Clan Timeline
Satomi Sanetaka of Awa Province lands troops at Kamakura.
The Ogigayatsu-Uesugi raid Sagami Province and burn a number of towns.
This is the first of many Nagao/Uesugi efforts to drive the Hôjô from that province.
www.samurai-archives.com /hojotime.html   (1335 words)

  
 POTTED BIOGRAPHIES OF HISTORICAL FIGURES MENTIONED IN THE SAMURAI
His most famous exploit was his night attack on the forces of Takeda Katsuyori in the autumn of 1581 at Ukishinagahara in Suruga Province, using his four groups to harass constantly Katsuyori's men.
He then sent an army to take Kozuke whose lord was away in Kyoto but that lord returned and defeated him whereupon he called for aid and Kozuke province was added to the Hojo domains.
Semi-historical figure said to be a founder of Iga style ninjutsu, the ruins of his house are said to be at Ryuguchi in Nabari City, Iga Province (modern Mie Prefecture) and the remains of his fort where he trained so many ninja are at Hojiro in Ueno City.
www.home.netspeed.com.au /reguli/samhist.htm   (2668 words)

  
 Shimo-Usa Province - TheBestLinks.com - Honshu, Musashi Province, Provinces of Japan, Kozuke Province, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shimo-Usa Province - TheBestLinks.com - Honshu, Musashi Province, Provinces of Japan, Kozuke Province,...
Shimo-Usa Province, Honshu, Musashi Province, Provinces of Japan, Kozuke...
Shimo-Usa province (下総国 -no kuni) was an old province of Japan located on the island of Honshu in modern-day Chiba Prefecture.
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 Odawara
Although this showed a break from the reliance of man on mother nature to bring food to him, the natural disasters and possible food shortages at the end of the Jomon period were problems which would come back to plague the people in Odawara time and again.
In 899 the governor of Kozuke province, neighbor to Sagami, asked the government at Heian to deal with the problem, resulting in the construction of barriers at Ashigara Pass which would check papers of travelers to ensure they had an official reason to cross to the other side.
In 1683, Inaba Masamichi, the third Inaba ruler, took power, and he was transferred in 1686 to another province, a common practice of the Tokugawa shoguns.
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 Gunma Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the past, Gunma was joined with Tochigi and called Kenu Province.
For most of Japanese history, Gunma was known as the province of Kozuke.
Gunma is the northwestern-most prefecture of the Kanto, and is mostly mountainous in the north, with more of the population concentrated in the southern half facing Saitama Prefecture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gunma_prefecture   (309 words)

  
 Kozuke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A typical eastern province, Kozuke is mostly flatland with precious little cover.
To be successful, an attacking general must take advantage of every slope possible, seeking to gain even the slightest advantage.
The defender would do well to set up camp in a forward position to allow for a possible retreat and re-grouping toward the centre of the map.
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 Civilization Fanatics' Forums - Rise to Power : Tokugawa Ieyasu
The founder of this line took the Nitta name from the locality in the province of Kozuke where he was first assigned as an estate manager.
Eight generations later, the Tokugawa seemed to have left the Kozuke province and assumed leadership of the Matsudaira, chiefs of a village bearing the same name in neighbouring Mikawa province.
However, Ieyasu's prior experience with absorbing the lands of defeated rivals, particularly the Kai province that was taken from the Takeda, held him in good stead.
forums.civfanatics.com /printthread.php?t=78386   (4281 words)

  
 Kozuke Province - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kozuke Province - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 03:01, 1 Feb 2005.
The article about Kozuke Province contains information related to Kozuke Province.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Kozuke_province   (97 words)

  
 Hiroshige - 60 Odd Provinces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Pine Grove at Mio in Suruga Province
The Cave Temple of Kannon in the Iwai Valley in Tajima Province
The Weir in the Shallows at Yanase in Chikugo Province
www.hiroshige.org.uk /hiroshige/60_odd_provinces/60_odd_provinces.htm   (368 words)

  
 Provinces in the "Shogun: Total War" and "Shogun: Mongol Invasion" Games
Provinces in the "Shogun: Total War" and "Shogun: Mongol Invasion" Games
Contains silver deposits which could yield 400 Koku per year if a mine were built.
Bordered by Dewa (), Mutsu (), Kozuke (Hojo), Shinano (), and Etchu ().
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 The enemy is in the Honno-J
By the end of the 1560's Oda Nobunaga was the undisputed lord of Owari province.
These fought under Oda command or independently, conquering many provinces that Nobunaga allowed them to govern in his name, so that by 1582 all of them had obtained their own powerbases.
The defeat of the Takeda has eased the pressure from Shinano and Kozuke, although the Hojo are not to be trusted.
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 Maiden Masher // - - Samurai Database .::. Samurai Database .::.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Takauji rallied his forces in Omi province and launched a counterattack that produced a string of fiercely contested struggles in March and a fight for the capital itself that occupied the better part of April.
The lord of that province was Kôno Michinao, a daimyo who had once been driven from his domain by the Utsunomiya clan, returning only with the assistance of the powerful Môri.
Along with his father he was given the province of Tango in 1580, soon afterwards married the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide, noted Oda general and a friend of Fujitaka.
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 Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism: Nichikan
He is revered as a restorer of Nichiren's teachings because he worked to clarify their true meaning.
His father was a retainer of the lord of Maebashi in Kozuke Province, and his childhood name was Ito Ichinoshin.
Thereafter he devoted himself to the practice and study of Nichiren's teachings, and in 1689 entered Hosokusa Seminary in Kazusa Province, where priests were instructed in Nichiren's teachings.
www.sgi-usa.org /buddhism/library/sgdb/lexicon.cgi?tid=822   (331 words)

  
 PROVINCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Search the PROVINCE Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
Search the PROVINCE Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
Find graves of people named PROVINCE at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
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 Incident at Honnoji - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Furthermore, when invading Tamba province, Akechi Mitsuhide supposedly sent his mother as a hostage into the hostile Yagami Castle to convince the Hatano clan to surrender.
He returned to his home Mikawa province by sea, and it took him so long that by the time he consolidated his position, Hashiba Hideyoshi had already had most of Nobunaga's territories under firm control.
Shibata Katsuie and other Oda vassals in the north were bogged down by an Uesugi counterattack in Echizen province, and remained unable to act for quite a while.
www.grohol.com /psypsych/Incident_of_Honnoji   (1292 words)

  
 Shinano Province - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Shinano Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Shinano Province - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Shinano Province.
Here you will find more informations about Shinano Province.
The orginal Shinano Province article can be editet
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 Imagawa's Struggle
The province of Kozuke was hilly, giving us more chance to succeed.
He was then entered the castle of Kozuke, which had been under siege for 2 seasons.
Hojo's provinces still generate troops every season - we must take this river province as soon as possible.
www.totalwar.org /hosted/maltz/02_Imagawa/Imagawa03.htm   (1172 words)

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