Tosandō (note that this map depicts the provinces near the end of the official status of provinces).

Tōsandō (東山道^?) was an old Japanese geographical region that made up the gokishichidō system and was situated along the central mountains of Honshū.^[1] Its name literally means "Eastern Mountain Way." It also refers to a series of roads that connected the capitals (国府, kokufu^?) of each of the provinces that made up the region.

The Tōsandō region encompassed eight ancient provinces.^[2]

• Ōmi Province
• Mino Province
• Hida Province
• Shinano Province
• Kōzuke Province
• Shimotsuke Province
• Mutsu Province
  • 718 for several years
    • Mutsu Province
    • Iwaki Province
    • Iwase Province
  • Since the 1868 breakup
    • Iwashiro Province
    • Iwaki Province
    • Rikuchū Province
    • Rikuzen Province
    • Mutsu Province
• Dewa Province
  • Since the 1868 breakup
    • Uzen Province
    • Ugo Province

[edit] References

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo/Hayashi Gahō, 1652], Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.... Click link to digitized, full-text copy of this book (in French)

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