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Nankaidō is a Japanese geographical term. It means both an ancient division of the country and the main road running through it. The road connected provincial capitals in this region. It was part of the Gokishichidō system.
Iyo Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku. Iyo bordered on Awa, Sanuki, and Tosa Provinces. It was sometimes called Yoshū (予州).
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Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south.
Shikoku is the smallest and least populous of the four main islands of Japan, located south of Honshu and east of the island of Kyushu. Shikoku comprises 3.1 percent of the entire population of Japan. Its ancient names include Iyo-no-futana-shima (伊予之二名島), Iyo-shima (伊予島), and Futana-shima (二名島). The current name refers to the four former provinces that made up the island: Awa, Tosa, Sanuki, and Iyo.
Ehime Prefecture is a prefecture in northwestern Shikoku, Japan. The capital is Matsuyama.
Shūfu(周敷郡(周布郡) Shūfu-gun) was a district located in eastern Iyo Province (Ehime Prefecture). In 1897, the district merged with Kuwamura District (桑村郡) to become Shūsō District (周桑郡) and the district dissolved.
The district is today a geographical and statistical unit comprising one or several rural municipalities in Japan. It was used as an administrative unit in Japan in antiquity and between 1878 and 1921 and was roughly equivalent to the county of the United States, ranking at the level below prefecture and above town or village, same as city.
List of Provinces of Japan > Nankaido > Iyo Province > Kuwamura District
Shūsō was a district located in Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
Tano was a village located in Shūfu District later Shūsō District, Ehime Prefecture.
Kamo was a district located in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
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