Sado Province

was an island province of Japan until 1871 when it became a part of Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Sado" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 803. It was sometimes called  or . 

History
Sado 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 1221, Emperor Juntoku was sent into exile on Sado Island.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834).  Annales des empereurs, p. 258.  The former emperor is sometimes identified as  because his last years were spent at Sado.Bornoff, Nicholas. (2005). National Geographic Traveler Japan, p. 193.  Juntoku remained at Sado until his death in 1242.  

In the Edo period, Gold was discovered and mined.  The Sado mines were added to the tentative World Heritage List in 2010.United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),  "The Sado complex of heritage mines, primarily gold mines". Retrieved 2011-1-20.

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

Geography
Sado is an island in the Sea of Japan.  It was off the coast of Echigo Province.

Shrines and Temples
Watatsu-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Sado.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 . 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:Niigata Prefecture