was an
old province of
Japan
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in the area that is today the eastern part of
Tottori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hirosh ...
. It was sometimes called . Inaba bordered on
Harima
or Banshū (播州) was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyōgo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima, Tanba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka Provinces. Its capital was Himeji.
During the ...
,
Hōki
was a after '' Jingo-keiun'' and before ''Ten'ō''. This period spanned the years from October 770 through January 781. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
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,
Mimasaka, and
Tajima Provinces.
The ancient capital, and the castle town, were at
Tottori city.
Ube jinja was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (''
ichinomiya
is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province. Shrines of lower rank were designated , , , and so forth. ''Encyclopedia of Shinto'' ''Ichi no miya'' retrieved 2013-5-14.
The term gave rise t ...
'') for the province.
"Nationwide List of ''Ichinomiya''," p. 2.
; retrieved 2011-08-09
Historical districts
* Tottori Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Tottori Prefecture is the least populous prefecture of Japan at 570,569 (2016) and has a geographic area of . Tottori Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture to the west, Hirosh ...
** Chizu District (智頭郡) - merged with Hattō and Yakami Districts to become Yazu District (八頭郡) on March 29, 1896
** Hattō District (八東郡) - merged with Chizu and Yakami Districts to become Yazu District on March 29, 1896
** Hōmi District (法美郡) - merged with Iwai and Ōmi Districts to become Iwami District (岩美郡) on March 29, 1896
** Iwai District (岩井郡) - merged with Hōmi and Ōmi Districts to become Iwami District on March 29, 1896
** Keta District
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(気多郡) - merged with Takakusa District to become Ketaka District (気高郡) on March 29, 1896
** Ōmi District (邑美郡) - merged with Hōmi and Iwai Districts to become Iwami District on March 29, 1896
** Takakusa District (高草郡) - merged with Keta District to become Ketaka District on March 29, 1896
** Yakami District (八上郡) - merged with Chizu and Hattō Districts to become Yazu District on March 29, 1896
See also
* Tottori Domain
270px, Ikeda Yoshinori
270px, Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Tottori Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It controlled all of Inaba Provi ...
* Shikano Domain
270px, Ikeda Yoshinori
270px, Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Tottori Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It controlled all of Inaba Provi ...
* Wakasa Domain
Notes
References
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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OCLC 58053128
External links
Former provinces of Japan
History of Tottori Prefecture
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