Koshi Province

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Koshi Province in map of Japan

Koshi Province (越国, Koshi-no Kuni) was an ancient province or region of Japan in the area of Echigo, Etchū and Echizen provinces.^[1] Also encompassed are Noto and Kaga provinces which were once part of Echizen.^[2] It was sometimes called Esshū (越州).

It appears as one of the original provinces in the Nihon Shoki. In 598 AD it sent a white deer to Empress Suiko as tribute.

At the end of the 7th century it was divided into three separate provinces: Echizen, Echigo and Etchū (evidenced by Taihō Code in 701). The names of new provinces mean front-Koshi, rear-Koshi and middle-Koshi respectively that represent the distance from Kinki region when Ritsuryō system had enacted.

This area is now known as the Hokuriku region.

Notes

↑ Satow, Ernest. (1874). "The Geography of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 1-2, p. 35., p. 35, at Google Books
↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Koshi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 563, p. 563, at Google Books.

References

Asiatic Society of Japan. (1874). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Yokohama: The Society. OCLC 1514456
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

v t e Former provinces of Japan (List)

Kinai	Izumi Kawachi Settsu Yamashiro Yamato Yoshino 716-738

Tōkaidō	Awa Hitachi Iga Ise Izu Kai Kazusa Mikawa Musashi Owari Sagami Shima Shimōsa Suruga Tōtōmi

Tōsandō	Dewa -1869 Hida Iwaki 718-724 Iwaki 1869- Iwase 718-724 Iwashiro 1869- Kōzuke Mino Ōmi Mutsu -1869 Rikuō (or Mutsu) 1869- Rikuchū 1869- Rikuzen 1869- Shimotsuke Shinano Suwa 721-731 Ugo 1869- Uzen 1869-

Hokurikudō	Echigo Echizen Etchū Kaga Noto Sado Wakasa

San'indō	Hōki Inaba Izumo Iwami Oki Tajima Tamba Tango

San'yōdō	Aki Bingo Bitchū Bizen Harima Mimasaka Nagato Suō

Nankaidō	Awa Awaji Iyo Kii Sanuki Tosa

Saikaidō	Bungo Buzen Chikugo Chikuzen Higo Hizen Hyūga Iki Ōsumi Satsuma Tane 702-824 Tsushima

Hokkaidō 1869-	Chishima Hidaka Iburi Ishikari Kitami Kushiro Nemuro Oshima Shiribeshi Teshio Tokachi

Pre-Taihō Code provinces	Chichibu Fusa Hi Keno Kibi Koshi Kumaso Toyo Tsukushi

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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