was an old province of

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in the area of Kagoshima Prefecture, roughly corresponding to

Kumage Subprefecture is a subprefecture of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The subprefectural office is located in Nishinoomote. It includes the following cities and towns on the Ōsumi Islands: *Kumage Subprefecture ** Nishinoomote (city on Tanegashima and Magesh ...

History

Kofun burial mounds on

Tanegashima is one of the Ōsumi Islands belonging to Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The island, 444.99 km2 in area, is the second largest of the Ōsumi Islands, and has a population of 33,000 people. Access to the island is by ferry, or by air to Ne ...

and two very old Shinto shrines on

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suggest that these islands were the southern border of the

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. Annals of the Nara period regard Tane-no-kuni as the name for all the

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, including Tanegashima and Yakushima.Nussbaum, "''Yakushima''" at . * 675 : The '' Shoku Nihongi'' records, "

Satsuma Satsuma may refer to: * Satsuma (fruit), a citrus fruit * ''Satsuma'' (gastropod), a genus of land snails Places Japan * Satsuma, Kagoshima, a Japanese town * Satsuma District, Kagoshima, a district in Kagoshima Prefecture * Satsuma Domain, a sou ...

and Tane broke the relation and disobey to the king's order. So (the government) sent an army, conquered them, counted the population, and placed the officials." This marks the establishment of the Satsuma and Tane Provinces. * 824 (''

Tenchō was a after '' Kōnin'' and before '' Jōwa.'' This period spanned the years from January 824 through January 834. The reigning emperors were and . Change of era * February 6, 824 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series o ...

1''): Tane was annexed to

Ōsumi Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima Prefecture. It was sometimes called . Ōsumi bordered on Hyūga and Satsuma Provinces. Osumi's ancient capital was near modern Kokubu. During the Sengoku a ...

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References

* Beillevaire, Patrick. (2000). ''Ryūkyū Studies to 1854: Western Encounter,'' Vol. 1. London: Taylor & Francis. ;
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* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''
Cambridge:

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