Mino Province

Map of Japanese provinces with province highlighted

Mino (美濃国; -no kuni) is an old province of Japan, which today composes nearly the southern part of Gifu prefecture. Mino bordered on Echizen, Hida, Ise, Mikawa, Omi, Owari, and Shinano provinces.

Although the ancient provincial capital was near Tarui, the main castle town was at Gifu.

Historical record

In the sixth year of the Wadō era (713): The road which traverses Mino and Shinano province (信濃国) was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers.

In the Sengoku period, Mino-no kuni was one of the original provinces controlled by Oda Nobunaga, and his heirs controlled it even after Nobunaga died and Toyotomi Hideyoshi took power.

The Battle of Sekigahara took place at the western edge of Mino, near the mountains between the Chūbu region and the Kinki region.

References

Further reading

• Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 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.--Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006. Click here to read the original text in French.

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