Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kazusa Province highlighted
Capital
Ichihara District
History
• Established
7th century
• Disestablished
1868
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Fusa Province
Chiba Prefecture
Today part of
Chiba Prefecture
Kazusa Province (上総国, Kazusa-no kuni) was a province of Japan in the area of modern Chiba Prefecture.[1] The province was located in the middle of the Bōsō Peninsula, whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Sōshū (総州) or Nansō (南総).[2] The borders of Kazusa Province were defined by Shimōsa Province to the north, the Pacific Ocean to the east, Awa Province to the south, and Tokyo Bay to the west.
Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Kazusa" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting Kujūkuri Beach
Kazusa was classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. Under the Engishiki classification system, Kazusa was ranked as a "great country" (大国) and a "far country" in relation to its distance from the capital (遠国). Along with Kōzuke and Hitachi, it was originally one of the provinces where an imperial prince was nominally assigned as governor.
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region (-chihō, roughly comparable to ancient circuits, -dō) and ancient province (kuni/-shū, roughly comparable to modern prefectures, -to/-dō/-fu/-ken)...
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or great-grandson of Kanmu who was appointed the vice-governor of KazusaProvince (modern central Chiba Prefecture) in 889 (Kanpyō 1). Takamochi's sons...
as Kazusa-no-suke Hirotsune, in which "Kazusa-no-suke" (Vice Governor of KazusaProvince) indicates his office. Kazusa Hirotsune was born in Kazusa Province...
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the Tokugawa. Tadatomo received a 100,000-koku domain at Ōtaki in KazusaProvince following the year 1600. In the year 1609, Tadatomo sheltered Don Rodrigo...
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species name honoring the place of its discovery–and the paratype in the KazusaProvince on the opposite side of Tokyo Bay. It may represent an intermediary...
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