Tane Province Explained

was an old province of Japan in the area of Kagoshima Prefecture, roughly corresponding to Kumage Subprefecture.[1]

History

Kofun burial mounds on Tanegashima and two very old Shinto shrines on Yakushima suggest that these islands were the southern border of the Yamato state.[2]

Annals of the Nara period regard Tane-no-kuni as the name for all the Ryukyu Islands,[3] including Tanegashima[4] and Yakushima.[5]

References

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Notes and References

  1. [Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]
  2. Denoon, Donald et al. (2001).
  3. Tōyō Bunko. (1935). Memoirs of the Research Department of the Tōyō Bunko (the Oriental Library), Vols. 7-10, p. 27.
  4. Nussbaum, "Tanegashima" at .
  5. Nussbaum, "Yakushima" at .
  6. Beillevaire, Patrick. (2000). ; excerpt, "Im dritten Jahre der Regierung des Mikado Ten mu (674) kamen auch Gesandte von Tane no kuni an den japanischen Hof. Jakusima und das heutige Tanegasima waren die nördlichsten der mehrgenannten Südseeinseln...."; compare NengoCalc Temmu 3 (天武三年)