Owari Province

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Owari Province

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Lang/data/is latn data' not found. was an old province of Japan in the area of Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] including much of modern Nagoya. It is also known as Bishū (尾州).

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Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Owari Province highlighted

The ancient capital of Owari was near Inazawa

History

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View of Owari Province, woodblock print by Hokusai, 1830

The province was created in 646.[1]

In the Sengoku Period, Oda Nobunaga held Kiyosu Castle.[2]

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the main city of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The road passed through Owari.[3]

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Owari Province were reformed in the 1870s.[4]

Geography

Owari and Mino provinces were separated by the Sakai River.

Shrines and Temples

Masumida jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Owari. [5]

References

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