Musashi Province

Map of Japanese provinces with province highlighted

Musashi Province (武蔵国, Musashi no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [mɯ̈́.sä̀.ɕì (nò̞ kɯ̈̀.ɲ̟ì)]) was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was sometimes called Bushū (武州). The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.

Musashi was the largest province in the Kantō region.

History

Musashi had its ancient capital in modern Fuchū, Tokyo, and its provincial temple in what is now Kokubunji, Tokyo. By the Sengoku period, the main city was Edo, which became the dominant city of eastern Japan. Edo Castle was the headquarters of Tokugawa Ieyasu before the Battle of Sekigahara and became the dominant city of Japan during the Edo period, being renamed Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration.

Hikawa-jinja was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of the province; and there are many branch shrines.

The former province gave its name to the battleship Musashi of the Second World War.

Timeline of important events

Wadōkaichin monument in Saitama

Historical districts

Musashi Province had 21 districts and then added one later.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Hirayama, Teruo, ed. (15 September 2010) [30 June 1960]. 全国アクセント辞典 (in Japanese) (31st ed.). Chiyoda, Tokyo: Tokyodo Shuppan. p. 781. ISBN 978-4-490-10023-5.
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  3. ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, ed. (20 June 2025) [25 May 2016]. NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese) (15th ed.). Shibuya, Tokyo: NHK Publishing. p. 1328. ISBN 978-4-14-011345-5.
  4. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "Musashi" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 669–671, p. 669, at Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Map of Bushū Toshima District, Edo". World Digital Library. 1682. Archived from the original on 28 August 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3. Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2011-08-09
  7. ↑ Nussbaum, "Hikawa-jinja" at p. 311, p. 311, at Google Books.
  8. ↑ Hall, John; Jansen, Marius; Kanai, Madoka; Twitchett, Denis. The Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 1: Ancient Japan (1st ed.).
  9. ↑ Brown, Delmer M. (1979). Gukanshō, p. 271.
  10. 1 2 3 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 63., p. 63, at Google Books

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