- Tamba Province
nihongo|Tamba Province|丹波国|Tamba no kuni was an old province of
Japan that included both the central part of modernKyoto Prefecture and the east-central part ofHyōgo Prefecture . Tamba bordered on Harima, Ōmi, Settsu, Tajima, Tango, Wakasa, and Yamashiro provinces.The ancient provincial capital is believed to be in the area of modern Kameoka.
Historical record
In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the "Wadō" era (
713 ),Tango province (丹後国) was administratively separated from Tamba. In that same year,Empress Gemmei 's "Daijō-kan " continued to organize othercadastral changes in the provincial map of theNara period .In "Wadō" 6,
Mimasaka province (美作国) was sundered fromBizen province (備前国); andHyūga province (日向国) was divided fromOsumi province (大隈国). [Titsingh, p. 64.] In "Wadō" 5 (712 ),Mutsu province (陸奥国) had been severed fromDewa province (出羽国). [Titsingh, p. 64.]After being governed by a succession of minor daimyo, the region was eventually conquered by
Oda Nobunaga in theSengoku period . He assigned the province to one of his generals,Akechi Mitsuhide , who would become the central figure in Nobunaga's assassination in 1582.References
Notes
Further reading
* Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652] , "
Nipon o daï itsi ran ; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth." Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. [http://books.google.com/books?id=18oNAAAAIAAJ&dq=nipon+o+dai+itsi+ran --"Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006." Click here to read the original text in French.]
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