Kinai

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Kinai is the pink area.

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5 provinces in Kinai, Hyūga and Izumo

Template:Nihongo is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō.<ref name="kinai">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kinai" in Template:Google books.</ref> The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760.<ref name="gokishichido">Nussbaum, "Gokishichidō" in Template:Google books.</ref>

The name is still used to describe part of the Kansai region, but the area of the Kinai corresponds only generally to the land of the old provinces.<ref name="kinai"/>

The region was established as one of the Gokishichidō ("Five provinces and seven roads") during the Asuka period (538-710). It consisted of Yamashiro, Yamato, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi provinces.<ref name="gokishichido"/>

See also

• Comparison of past and present administrative divisions of Japan
• Template:Nihongo

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 58053128

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