Owari Province (尾張国, Owari no Kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Aichi Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] including much of modern Nagoya. It is also known as Bishū (尾州).
The ancient capital of Owari was near Inazawa
The province was created in 646.[1]
In the Sengoku Period, Oda Nobunaga held Kiyosu Castle.[2]
In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the main city of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The road passed through Owari.[3]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Owari Province were reformed in the 1870s.[4]
Owari and Mino provinces were separated by the Sakai River.
Masumida jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Owari. [5]
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Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,
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