Tango Province

nihongo|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. Tango bordered on Tajima, Tamba, and Wakasa provinces.

At various times both Maizuru and Miyazu were the capital and chief town of the province.

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. [Titsingh, p. 64.] In "Wadō 5" (712), Mutsu Province had been severed from Dewa Province. [Titsingh, p. 64.]

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* 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.]