Discover

(Redirected from Tamba province)

'Tamba' (丹波国; ''-no kuni'') was an old province of Japan that included both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyōgo Prefecture. Tamba bordered on Harima, Omi, Settsu, Tajima, Tango, Wakasa, and Yamashiro Provinces.
The ancient provincial capital is believed to be in the area of modern Kameoka.

Contents

Historical record

References

Notes

Further reading

Historical record

In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the ''Wadō'' era (713), the land of Tamba''-no kuni'' was administratively separated from Tango province (丹後国). 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, Mimasaka province (美作国) was sundered from Bizen province (備前国); and Hyūga province (日向国) was divided from Osumi province (大隈国).^[1] In ''Wadō'' 5 (712), Mutsu province (陸奥国) had been severed from Dewa province (出羽国).^[1]
After being governed by a succession of minor daimyo, the region was eventually conquered by Oda Nobunaga in the Sengoku period. He assigned the province to one of his generals, Akechi Mitsuhide, who would become the central figure in Nobunaga's assassination in 1582.

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.