Kinai_region

Kinai

Kinai

Administrative unit of ancient Japan

Kinai (畿内, Capital Region) is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō.[1] The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760.[2]

Kinai is the orange area.

The name is still used to describe part of the Kansai region, but the area of the Kinai corresponds only generally to the land of the old provinces.[1]

The region was established as one of the Gokishichidō ("Five provinces and seven roads") during the Asuka period (538-710). It consisted of Yamashiro, Yamato, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi provinces.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kinai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 521, p. 521, at Google Books.
  2. [2]
    Nussbaum, "Gokishichidō" in at p. 255, p. 255, at Google Books.

References

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128


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