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12-1096: Mikawa may refer to: Places in Japan Mikawa Province , an old province of Japan Mikawa, Yamagata , a town in Yamagata Prefecture Mikawa, Ishikawa , former town in Ishikawa Prefecture Mikawa, Kumamoto , former town in Kumamoto Prefecture Mikawa, Yamaguchi , former town in Yamaguchi Prefecture Mikawa, Ehime , former village in Ehime Prefecture Mikawa, Niigata , former village in Niigata Prefecture Surname Gunichi Mikawa , admiral in

24-636: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Mikawa Province Mikawa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō . Under the Engishiki classification system, Mikawa was ranked as a "superior country" (上国) and a "near country" (近国) in terms of its distance from the capital. Mikawa is mentioned in records of the Taika Reform dated 645, as well as various Nara period chronicles, including

36-710: The Imagawa clan to the east and the Oda clan to the west. It was united under Tokugawa Ieyasu after the power of the Imagawa had been destroyed at the Battle of Okehazama . After the creation of the Tokugawa shogunate , parts of the province were assigned as feudal domains to trusted hereditary retainers as fudai daimyōs , with large portions retained as shihaisho territory administered by various hatamoto directly under

48-592: The Kujiki , although the area has been settled since at least the Japanese Paleolithic period, as evidenced by numerous remains found by archaeologists. Early records mention a "Nishi-Mikawa no kuni" and a "Higashi-Mikawa no kuni", also known as Ho Province ( 穂国 , Ho no kuni ) . Although considered one administrative unit under the Engishiki classification system, this division (roughly based at

60-534: The provinces of Japan by Emperor Shōmu during 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

72-579: The Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II Kenichi Mikawa , Japanese TV star, comedian and singer Other uses Mikawa dialect , dialect of Japanese spoken in Mikawa Province in eastern Aichi Prefecture. It is also known as "Mikawa-ben" See also [ edit ] Mikawa Station (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

84-631: The Yasaku River) persisted informally into the Edo period . The exact location of the provincial capital is not known. Traditionally considered to have been located in the Ko-machi ( 国府町 ) area of the modern city of Toyokawa because of the place name, archaeological investigations at the Hakuho-machi area of Toyota from 1991 to 1997 have revealed extensive ruins and ceramic shards indicating

96-541: The new Aichi Prefecture in January 1872. After World War II, the territory of former Mikawa Province prospers as the capital of the Japanese automobile industry. Mikawa Province consisted of nine districts: SeaHorses Mikawa and SAN-EN NeoPhoenix play in the B.League , Japan's first division of professional basketball. Provincial temple Kokubun-ji ( 国分寺 ) were Buddhist temples established in each of

108-635: The possibility that the provincial capital was located there. Furthermore, the ruins of the Kokubun-ji of Mikawa Province was located in 1999 a short distance away from the Toyota site. On the other hand, the Ichinomiya of the province, Toga jinja is located in what is now part of Toyokawa, as well as a temple which claims to be a successor to the original provincial temple. During the Heian period ,

120-758: The province was divided into numerous shōen controlled by local samurai clans. During the Kamakura period but it came under the control of Adachi Morinaga , followed by the Ashikaga clan . For much of the Muromachi period it was controlled by the Isshiki clan . However, by the Sengoku period , the province had fragmented into many small territories largely dominated by the Matsudaira clan , and contested by

132-554: The shogunate. During the Edo period, Mikawa was the only area permitted by the shogunate to produce gunpowder , which led to its modern fireworks industry. The various domains and tenryō territories were transformed into short-lived prefectures in July 1871 by the abolition of the han system , and was organized into ten districts by the early Meiji period cadastral reform of 1869. The entire territory of former Mikawa Province became part of

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