Dewa Province
| Dewa Province 出羽国 | |||||||||||
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| Province of Japan | |||||||||||
| 712–1869 | |||||||||||
 Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Dewa Province highlighted | |||||||||||
| Capital | Hiraka District | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | 712 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1869 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Akita Prefecture Yamagata Prefecture | ||||||||||
Dewa Province (出羽国, Dewa no kuni) was a
Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Ushū (羽州).
History
Early period
Prior to the
A number of military expeditions were sent to the area, with armed colonists forming settlements with wooden palisades across central Dewa in what is now the Shōnai area of
During the
During the
Medieval period
Following the destruction of the Northern Fujiwara clan by the forces of the Kamakura shogunate in 1189, many Fujiwara partisans fled to the mountains of Dewa and continued to resist central authority. The area was divided into numerous shōen during the Kamakura period, which developed into the centers of numerous rival samurai clans. In 1335, Shiba Kaneyori received the Dewa Province as a fief from Ashikaga Takauji,[4] but ruled it only in name. By the end of the Sengoku period, the Mogami clan had emerged as the strongest local force in the southern portion of the province, whereas the Akita clan dominated the northern portion of the province. Both clans sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara, and were thus secured in their holdings at the start of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Early modern period
During the early
Historical districts
- Ugo Province
- Akumi District (飽海郡)
- Akita District (秋田郡)
- Hiraka District (平鹿郡)
- Kawabe District (河辺郡)
- Ogachi District (雄勝郡)
- Semboku District(仙北郡)
- Yamamoto District (山本郡)
- Yuri District (由利郡)
- Uzen Province
- Tagawa District (田川郡) (former Dewa District (出羽郡))
- Kubiki District (櫛引郡)
- Mogami District (最上郡)
- Murayama District (村山郡)
- Okitama District (置賜郡)
Bakumatsu period domains
| Name | type | daimyo | kokudaka | notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kubota Domain | tozama |
Satake | 205,000 koku | also known as Akita Domain |
| Kameda Domain | tozama | Iwaki | 20,000 koku | |
| Honjō Domain | tozama | Rokugō | 20,000 koku | |
| Shōnai-Matsuyama Domain | fudai | Sakai | 20,000 koku | sub of Shōnai Domain |
| Shōnai Domain | fudai |
Sakai | 170,000 koku | also known as Tsuruoka Domain |
| Yamagata Domain | fudai | Mizuno | 50,000 koku | |
| Kaminoyama Domain | fudai | Matsudaira (Fujii) | 30,000 koku | |
| Tendō Domain | tozama | Oda | 20,000 koku | |
| Nagatoro Domain | fudai | Yonekitsu | 10,000 koku | |
| Yonezawa Domain | tozama | Uesugi | 167,000 koku | |
| Kubota Shinden Domain | tozama | Satake | 20,000 koku | sub of Kubota Domain |
| Yonezawa Shinden Domain | tozama | Uesugi | 10,000 koku | sub of Yonezawa domain |
| Shinjō Domain | fudai | Tozawa | 68,800 koku |
Highways
- Aomori
- Yamagata.
- Sendai.
- Niigata.
Notes
- ^ Kōdansha. (1993). "Akitajō" in Japan: an Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 29.
- ^ Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 64., p. 64, at Google Books
- ^ Turnbull. Japanese Castles AD 250-1540. Page 13
- ^ Terry, Thomas Philip. (1914). Terry's Japanese Empire, p. 324., p. 324, at Google Books
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures"in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780.
References
- Kōdansha. (1993). Japan: an Illustrated Encyclopedia. Tokyo: Kōdansha; OCLC 193352222
- Terry, Thomas Philip. (1914). Terry's Japanese Empire: including Korea and Formosa, with Chapters on Manchuria, the Trans-Siberian Railway, and the Chief Ocean Routes to Japan: a Guidebook for Travelers. New York: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 123254449
- Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.
External links
Media related to Dewa Province at Wikimedia Commons