Kazusa Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kazusa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 502.  It was also known as  or . 

The ancient capital city of the province was in or near Ichihara, Chiba.

History
Kazusa was originally part of a larger territory known as , which was divided into Kazusa Province and Shimōsa Province during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654). Part of Kazusa was made into Awa Province 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 Kazusa Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

Shrines and Temples
Tamasaki jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kazusa.  
"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