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'Mimasaka' (美作国 ''-no kuni'') or 'Sakushu' (作州 ''sakushū'') was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture. Mimasaka bordered Bitchu, Bizen, Harima, Hoki, and Inaba Provinces.
Mimasaka was landlocked, and was often ruled by the daimyo in Bizen. The ancient capital and castle town was Tsuyama. During the Edo period the province was controlled by the Tsuyama Domain.

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Historical record

References

Notes

Further reading

Historical record

In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the ''Wadō'' era (713), the land of Mimasaka''-no kuni'' was administratively separated from Bizen 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, Tamba province was sundered from Tango province; and Hyūga province was divided from Osumi province.^[1] In ''Wadō'' 5 (712), Mutsu province had been severed from Dewa province.^[1]

References

Notes

1. Titsingh, p. 64.
2. Titsingh, p. 64.

Further reading

★ 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.--''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.