Tane Province

was an island province of Japan in the area of Kagoshima Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005).  "Kagoshima" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 447. The history of the province started in 674 and ended in 824.

History
Kofun burial mounds are found on Tanegashima. Two very old Shinto shrines on Yakushima suggest that these islands were the southern border of the Yamato state.Denoon, Donald et al. (2001).  Multicultural Japan: Palaeolithic to Postmodern, p. 107.

Annals of the Nara period regard Tane-no-kuni as the name for all the Ryukyu Islands,Tōyō Bunko. (1935). Memoirs of the Research Department of the Tōyō Bunko (the Oriental Library), Vols. 7-10, p. 27. including TanegashimaNussbaum,  "Tanegashima" at pp. 947-948. and Yakushima.Nussbaum,  "Yakushima" at p. 1035. 

Timeline
 674 {Temmu 2): Ambassadors of Tane no kuni were received in the Japanese court.Beillevaire, Patrick. (2000).  Ryūkyū Studies to 1854: Western Encounter, Vol. 1, p. 272; excerpt,  "Im dritten Jahre der Regierung des Mikado Ten mu (674) kamen auch Gesandte von Tane no kuni au den japanischen Hof. Jakusima und das heutige Tanegasima waren die nördlichsten der mehrgenannten Südseeinseln...."; compare  NengoCalc, Temmu 2 (天武二年); retrieved 2012-1-18.

 702 (Taihō 2):  The Shoku Nihongi records,  "Satsuma and Tane broke the relation and disobey to the king's order. So (the government) sent an army, conquered them, counted the population, and placed the officials."

 824 (Tenchō 1): Tane was made part of Ōsumi Province.


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:Kagoshima Prefecture