Comparison_of_past_and_present_administrative_divisions_of_Japan

Comparison of past and present administrative divisions of Japan

Comparison of past and present administrative divisions of Japan

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The geography and administrative subdivisions of Japan have evolved and changed during the course of its history. These were sometimes grouped according to geographic position.[1][2]

Kinai

Tōkaidō

Tōkaidō literally means 'Eastern Sea Way'.[3] The term also identifies a series of roads connecting the 15 provincial capitals of the region.[4]

Tōsandō

The Tōsandō is a region which straddles the central mountains of northern Honshū.[5] The descriptive name also refers to a series of roads connecting the provincial capitals.[4] Tōsandō included Musashi Province after 711.[5]

Hokurikudō

  • Wakasa
  • Echizen (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Kaga (created in 823 from Echizen)
  • Noto (created in 718 from Echizen, then occupied in 741 by Etchū, later re-split in 757 from Etchū)
  • Etchū (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Echigo (broke off from Koshi during the end of the 7th century)
  • Sado (occupied in 743 by Echigo, later re-split in 752)

San'indō

San'yōdō

Nankaidō

Saikaidō

Hokkaidō

Notes

  1. [1]
    Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt, "Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."
  2. [2]
    Henry Smith's Home Page http://www.columbia.edu/~hds2/19th/kuni_vs_ken.gif
  3. [3]
    Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō" at p. 973, p. 973, at Google Books.
  4. [4]
    Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 57., p. 57, at Google Books
  5. [5]
    Nussbaum, "Tōsandō" at p. 988, p. 988, at Google Books.

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
  • Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Ōdai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
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