Sagami Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of central and western Kanagawa Prefecture.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kanagawa"  in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 466-467. It was sometimes called . 

The province had borders with Izu, Musashi, Suruga provinces.  Its Pacific Ocean border included Sagami Bay. 

The ancient capital city of the province was near  Hiratsuka.

History
Sagami was one of the original provinces of Japan established in the Nara period under the Taihō Code. 

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between Kyoto and Edo. The road passed through Sagami.Nussbaum, "Tōkaidō"  at p. 973.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Izu Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

All of Sagami became part of the new Kanagawa Prefecture in 1876.

In 1906, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Sagami was named after the province.Brassey, Thomas Allnutt (1906). Brassey's Annual: the Armed Forces Year-book, p. 24.

Shrines and Temples
Samukawa jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Hōki.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 ; retrieved 2012-1-25.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Kanagawa Prefecture