Awa Province (Chiba)

Awa Province in Shikoku sounds like it has the same name, but it is written with different kanji (阿波国). was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Awa no Kuni" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 62.  It is also known as  or . 

The province was on the tip of the Boso Peninsula (房総半島).  

History
Awa Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō.Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean  (1884). Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, Vol. 6, p. 172; excerpt, Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, Noto, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and  Shinano. 

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

Shrines and Temples
Awa jinjaNussbaum, "Awa-jinja" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 61. was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Awa.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 ; retrieved 2012-1-17.

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:Chiba Prefecture