Noto Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Noto Province highlighted

Noto Province (能登国, Noto no Kuni) was an old province in the area that is today the northern part of Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, including the Noto Peninsula (Noto-hantō) which is surrounded by the Sea of Japan.^[1] It was sometimes called Nōshū (能州). Noto bordered on Etchū and Kaga provinces. The ichinomiya of the province was Keta Shrine.

Nanao, Ishikawa was the ancient capital and the main castle town of Noto. For much of the Sengoku Period Noto was ruled by a minor branch of the Maeda clan of Kaga.

Following the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system in 1871, Noto Province was renamed Nanao Prefecture and Imizu District from Etchu Province was added. However, in 1872 Nanao was merged with Kanazawa Prefecture (the former Kaga Province) to form today's Ishikawa Prefecture and Imizu District was given back to Niikawa Prefecture (the renamed Etchu Province).

Maps of Japan and Noto Province were reformed in the 1870s when the prefecture system was introduced.^[2] At the same time, the province continued to exist for some purposes. For example, Noto is explicitly recognized in treaties in 1894 (a) between Japan and the United States and (b) between Japan and the United Kingdom.^[3]

Historical districts

Noto Province had 4 districts.

Ishikawa Prefecture
- Fugeshi District (鳳至郡) - dissolved; now the western part of Hōsu District (鳳珠郡)
- Hakui District (羽咋郡)
- Kashima District (鹿島郡)
- Suzu District (珠洲郡) - dissolved; now the eastern part of Hōsu District

Notes

↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Noto" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 728, p. 728, at Google Books.
↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
↑ US Department of State. (1906). A digest of international law as embodied in diplomatic discussions, treaties and other international agreements (John Bassett Moore, ed.), Vol. 5, p. 759.

References

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
Papinot, Edmond. (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha. OCLC 77691250

External links

Media related to Noto Province at Wikimedia Commons

Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Former provinces of Japan (List)

Kinai	Izumi Kawachi Settsu Yamashiro Yamato Yoshino 716-738

Tōkaidō	Awa Hitachi Iga Ise Izu Kai Kazusa Mikawa Musashi Owari Sagami Shima Shimōsa Suruga Tōtōmi

Tōsandō	Dewa -1869 Hida Iwaki 718-724 Iwaki 1869- Iwase 718-724 Iwashiro 1869- Kōzuke Mino Ōmi Mutsu -1869 Rikuō (or Mutsu) 1869- Rikuchū 1869- Rikuzen 1869- Shimotsuke Shinano Suwa 721-731 Ugo 1869- Uzen 1869-

Hokurikudō	Echigo Echizen Etchū Kaga Noto Sado Wakasa

San'indō	Hōki Inaba Izumo Iwami Oki Tajima Tamba Tango

San'yōdō	Aki Bingo Bitchū Bizen Harima Mimasaka Nagato Suō

Nankaidō	Awa Awaji Iyo Kii Sanuki Tosa

Saikaidō	Bungo Buzen Chikugo Chikuzen Higo Hizen Hyūga Iki Ōsumi Satsuma Tane 702-824 Tsushima

Hokkaidō 1869-	Chishima Hidaka Iburi Ishikari Kitami Kushiro Nemuro Oshima Shiribeshi Teshio Tokachi

Pre-Taihō Code provinces	Chichibu Fusa Hi Keno Kibi Koshi Kumaso Toyo Tsukushi

Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt, "Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."

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