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Bizen Province

Bizen (??? -no kuni) was a province

Provinces of Japan

Before the modern Prefectures of Japan was established, the land of Japan was divided into tens of kuni , usually known in English language as provinces....
of Japan

Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
on the Inland Sea side of Honshu

Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, in what is today the southeastern part of Okayama Prefecture

Okayama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Okayama....
. Bizen borders Mimasaka

Mimasaka Province

Mimasaka or Sakushu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan in the part of Honshu that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture. Mimasaka bordered Bitchu Province, Bizen Province, Harima Province, Hoki Province, and Inaba Provinces....
, Harima

Harima Province

or Banshu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan in the part of Honshu that is the southwestern part of present-day Hyogo Prefecture. Harima bordered on Tajima Province, Tamba Province, Settsu Province, Bizen Province, and Mimasaka Province provinces....
, and Bitchu

Bitchu Province

was a Provinces of Japan of Japan on the Seto Inland Sea side of western Honshu, in what is today western Okayama Prefecture. Bitchu bordered Hoki Province, Mimasaka Province, Bizen Province, and Bingo Province provinces....
province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
s.

Bizen's original center was in the modern city of Okayama

Okayama, Okayama

is the prefectural capital cities of Japan of Okayama Prefecture in the Chugoku region of Japan.The city was founded on June 1,1889. As of March 2007, the city has an estimated population of 698,946 and the density of 884.87 persons per km?....
. From an early time Bizen was one of Japan's main centers for sword

Katana

A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture....
smithing.

he 3rd month of the 6th year of the Wado
Wado (era)

was a after Keiun and before Reiki . This period spanned the years from 708 through 715. The reigning emperor was ....
era (713), the land of Bizen-no kuni was administratively separated from Mimasaka province

Mimasaka Province

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Bizen (??? -no kuni) was a province

Provinces of Japan

Before the modern Prefectures of Japan was established, the land of Japan was divided into tens of kuni , usually known in English language as provinces....
of Japan

Japan

Honshu

Okayama Prefecture

is a Prefectures of Japan of Japan located in the Chugoku region on Honshu island. The capital is the city of Okayama....
. Bizen borders Mimasaka

Mimasaka Province

Harima Province

Bitchu Province

Province

A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state....
s.

Bizen's original center was in the modern city of Okayama

Okayama, Okayama

Katana

A Japanese sword, or , is one of the traditional bladed weapons of Japan. These are categorised in several types according to size and method of manufacture....
smithing.

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In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the Wado
Wado (era)

was a after Keiun and before Reiki . This period spanned the years from 708 through 715. The reigning emperor was ....
era (713), the land of Bizen-no kuni was administratively separated from Mimasaka province

Mimasaka Province

Empress Gemmei

was the 43rd Emperor of Japan of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. This sovereign is sometimes identified as Empress Genmyo....
's Daijo-kan continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period

Nara period

The of the history of Japan covers the years from AD 710 to 794. Empress Gemmei established the capital of Heijo-kyo . Except for 5 years , when the capital was briefly moved again, it remained the capital of Japanese civilization until Emperor Kammu established a new capital, Nagaoka-kyo, in 784 before moving to Heian-kyo , or Kyoto, a decade lat...
.

In Wado 6, Tamba province

Tamba Province

was an Provinces of Japan of Japan. The ambit of its borders encompassed both the central part of modern Kyoto Prefecture and the east-central part of Hyogo Prefecture....
was sundered from Tango province

Tango Province

was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today northern Kyoto Prefecture facing the Sea of Japan. Tango bordered on Tajima Province, Tamba Province, and Wakasa Province provinces....
; and Hyuga province

Hyuga Province

Hyuga was an old provinces of Japan of Japan on the east coast of Kyushu, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo Province, Higo Province, Osumi Province, and Satsuma Provinces....
was divided from Osumi province

Osumi Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Kagoshima prefecture. Osumi bordered on Hyuga Province and Satsuma Province provinces....
. In Wado 5 (712), Mutsu province

Mutsu Province

was an old provinces of Japan of Japan, made up of the present-day Prefectures of Japans of Fukushima Prefecture, Miyagi Prefecture, Iwate Prefecture and Aomori Prefecture, and the municipalities of Kazuno, Akita and Kosaka, Akita in Akita Prefecture....
had been severed from Dewa province

Dewa Province

is an old provinces of Japan of Japan, comprising modern-day Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture, except for the city of Kazuno and the town of Kosaka, Akita....
.

In the Muromachi period

Muromachi period

The was a division of History of Japan running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Ashikaga shogunate, which was officially established in 1336 by the first Muromachi shogun, Ashikaga Takauji....
, Bizen was ruled by the Akamatsu clan

Akamatsu clan

The was a Japanese family of direct descent from Minamoto no Morifusa. They were prominent during the Sengoku period....
from Mimasaka, but by the Sengoku period

Sengoku period

The was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict in Japan that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century....
the Urakami clan

Urakami clan

Urakami clan a Japanese clan that primarily consisted at Bizen Province throughout the course of the Sengoku Period of the 16th century. One major turn of events that took place for the Urakami was through the death of Urakami Norimune following the year of 1502....
had become dominant and settled in Okayama city. They were later supplanted by the Ukita clan, and Ukita Hideie

Ukita Hideie

Ukita Hideie was the daimyo of Bizen Province and Mimasaka Province provinces , and one of the council of Five Elders appointed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi....
was one of the regents

Council of Five Elders

The council of five elders, also known as the five Tairo , was formed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to rule Japan in the place of his son, Toyotomi Hideyori, until such time as he came of age....
Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

was a Sengoku period daimyo who unified Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, after Hideyoshi's castle....
appointed for his son. After Kobayakawa Hideaki

Kobayakawa Hideaki

Kobayakawa Hideaki was fifth son of Kinoshita Iesada and the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.He was adopted by Hideyoshi and called himself Hashiba Hidetoshi and Shusen ....
helped Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Japanese name|Tokugawa}} was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868....
to win the Battle of Sekigahara

Battle of Sekigahara

The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 which cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate,...
over Ukita and others, he was granted Ukita's domains in Bizen and Mimasaka.

Bizen passed through a variety of hands during the Edo period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
before being incorporated into the modern prefecture system.

Bizen Province

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