Tango Province
Tango Province (丹後国 Tango no Kuni) was an old province in the area that is today northern Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.[1] It was sometimes called Tanshū (丹州), with Tamba Province. Tango bordered on Tajima, Tamba, and Wakasa provinces.
At various times both Maizuru and Miyazu were the capital and chief town of the province.
[edit] Historical record
In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the Wadō era (713), the land of Tango Province was administratively separated from Tamba Province. In that same year, Empress Gemmei's Daijō-kan continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period.
In Wadō 6, Mimasaka Province was sundered from Bizen Province, and Hyūga Province was divided from Ōsumi Province.[2] In Wadō 5 (712), Mutsu Province had been severed from Dewa Province.[2]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tango" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 948 at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
- ^ a b Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 64. at Google Books
[edit] References
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Odai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.
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