Kazusa Province ( 上総国 , Kazusa-no kuni ) was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture . The province was located in the middle of the Bōsō Peninsula , whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Sōshū ( 総州 ) or Nansō ( 南総 ) . The borders of Kazusa Province were defined by Shimōsa Province to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, Awa Province to the south, and Tokyo Bay to the west.
13-533: Kazusa may refer to: Kazusa Province ( 上総国 , Kazusa-no kuni ) , former province of Japan Kazusa, Nagasaki ( 加津佐町 Kazusa-machi ) , former town in Minamitakaki District, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan People with the surname [ edit ] Kazusa Hirotsune ( 上総 広常 ) (died 1183), Japanese samurai lord and gōzoku Aranami Kazusa ( 和沙 荒浪 ) , Japanese voice actress People with
26-511: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kazusa Province Kazusa was classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō . Under the Engishiki classification system, Kazusa was ranked as a "great country" (大国) and a "far country" in relation to its distance from the capital (遠国). Along with Kōzuke and Hitachi, it was originally one of
39-503: Is mentioned in Nara period records as having supplied hemp to the Court. Kazusa was divided into 15 counties, of which the four counties comprising the district of Awa were separated in 718 into a separate province. The exact location of the capital of Kazusa is not precisely known, but is believed to have been somewhere within the borders of the modern city of Ichihara, Chiba . The ruins of
52-609: The Boshin War , Jōzai Domain was abolished for its opposition to the Meiji Restoration , and six minor domains were created for daimyō dispossessed with the creation of Sunpu Domain for the ex- shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu . These various domains and tenryō territories were transformed into short-lived prefectures in July 1871 by the abolition of the han system , and the entire territory of Kazusa Province became part of
65-483: The Nara period (710 – 794). Shōmu (701 – 756?) decreed both a kokubun-ji for monks and a kokubunni-ji ( 国分尼寺 ) for nuns to be established in each province. Tōdai-ji , the provincial temple of Yamato Province , served as the head of all kokubun-ji , and Hokke-ji held that duty for the kokubunni-ji . Modern place names based on this etymology include: This Japanese history–related article
78-622: The kokubun-ji , or provincial temple , of Kazusa has been located in the Sōza district of Ichihara. The kokubun-ji was first excavated in 1949, and is on a plateau 30 metres (98 ft) above the Yōrō River in close proximity to Tokyo Bay . The site is protected as a Designated Historic Site of Japan . However, the Ichinomiya of Kazusa Province is the Tamasaki Shrine in what is now
91-670: The area was a highly contested region highly fragmented by various samurai clans. However, by the Sengoku period , the Satomi clan had gained control over much of Awa, Kazusa and Shimōsa provinces. The Satomi provided only lukewarm support to Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the Battle of Odawara against the Later Hōjō clan and were subsequently deprived of their holdings in Kazusa and Shimōsa. After
104-401: The given name [ edit ] Kazusa Murai ( 村井 かずさ ) (born 1975), Japanese voice actress Kazusa Ogawa ( 小川 和紗 , born 1997) , Japanese Paralympic judoka Kazusa Okuyama ( 奥山 かずさ , born 1994) , Japanese model Kazusa Takashima ( 高嶋 上総 ) , Japanese manga artist Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
117-626: The installation of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Edo , Kazusa became part of the Tokugawa clan holdings, and Tokugawa hereditary retainer Honda Tadakatsu was promoted to daimyō of Ōtaki Domain (50,000 koku ). During the Edo period , several small domains were created within the borders of Kazusa, most of which continued to be retained as tenryō territory owned directly by the shōgun and administered by various hatamoto . The entire province had an assessed revenue of 425,080 koku . Following
130-453: The new Chiba Prefecture on June 15, 1873. The area of former Kazusa Province was organized into nine districts by the Meiji period cadastral reforms, later reduced to five: [REDACTED] Media related to Kazusa Province at Wikimedia Commons Provincial temple Kokubun-ji ( 国分寺 ) were Buddhist temples established in each of the provinces of Japan by Emperor Shōmu during
143-483: The provinces where an imperial prince was nominally assigned as governor . Kazusa was originally part of a larger territory known as Fusa Province ( 総国, occasionally 捄国 , Fusa-no-kuni ) , which was divided into "upper" and “lower” portions (i.e. Kazusa and Shimōsa) during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645–654). It was well known to the Imperial Court in Nara -period Japan for its fertile lands, and
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169-675: The town of Ichinomiya, Chiba , on the opposite coast of the province. During the Heian period , the province was divided into numerous shōen controlled by local samurai clans, primarily the Chiba clan , which sided with Minamoto no Yoritomo in the Genpei War . During the Kamakura period , much of the province was under the control of the Ashikaga clan . By the early Muromachi period ,
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