Kinai

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Kinai is the orange area.

Kinai (畿内 Capital Region) is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō.[1] The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760.[2]

The name is still used to describe part of the Kansai region, but the area of the Kinai corresponds only generally to the land of the old provinces.[1]

The region was established as one of the Gokishichidō ("Five provinces and seven roads") during the Asuka period (538-710). It consisted of Yamashiro, Yamato, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi provinces.[2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kinai" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 521, p. 521, at Google Books.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nussbaum, "Gokishichidō" in at p. 255, p. 255, at Google Books.

References

Gokishichidō (five provinces and seven circuits)
Five provinces
Seven circuits
Kinai
Tōkaidō
Tōsandō
Hokurikudō
San'indō
San'yōdō
Nankaidō
Saikaidō
Hokkaidō
1869-
Pre-Taihō Code
provinces

Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,

"Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."

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