was an
old province of
Japan in the area that is today the western part of
Saitama Prefecture.
History
According to text in the ''Sendai Kuji Hongi'' (''
Kujiki
, or , is a historical Japanese text. It was generally believed to have been one of the earliest Japanese histories until the middle of the Edo period, when scholars such as Tokugawa Mitsukuni and Tada Yoshitoshi successfully contended that it wa ...
''), there was an area called Chichibu Province during the reign of
Emperor Sujin
, also known as in the ''Kojiki'', and or in the '' Nihon Shoki'' was the tenth Emperor of Japan. While Sujin is the first emperor whose existence historians widely accept, he is still referred to as a "legendary emperor" due to a lack of info ...
. Since ancient times,
Chichibu-jinja has been the main
Shinto shrine in the area.
In the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...
, a pilgrimage route linked together 34 sacred sites of the old Chichibu Province.
[Harold Bolitho. (2003)]
"Tokugawa Japan's Tourist Revolution,"
''Treasures of the Yenching: Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library,'' p. 40.
See also
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Musashi Province
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Chichibu District, Saitama is a district located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the district has an estimated population 755 and a density of 77.58 persons per km2. The total area is 796.03 km2.
History
According to text in the ''Sendai Kuji Hongi'' (''Kuji ...
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Thirteen Buddhas of Chichibu
The Thirteen Buddhas of Chichibu（秩父十三仏霊場, ''Chichibu jūsan butsu reijō''）are a group of 13 Buddhist sacred sites in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. ( was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Sai ...
References
Kuni no miyatsuko
History of Saitama Prefecture
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