Shūfu District, Ehime

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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 smallest of the four main islands of Japan

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.

Timeline

December 15, 1889 - Due to the municipal status enforcement, 10 villages were formed.
- 吉井村 ← 石田村, 今在家村, 広江村, 新屋敷村の一部, 玉之江村の一部（壬生川町 → 東予市 → 西条市）
- 周布村 ← 吉田村, 周布村の一部, 三津屋村の一部（同上）
- 多賀村 ← 北条村, 三津屋村の一部, 周布村の一部（同上）
- 小松村 ← 南川村, 北川村, 新屋敷村の一部, 玉之江村の一部（小松町 → 西条市）
- 石根村 ← 妙口村, 大頭村, 大郷村, 安井村, 明穂村の一部（同上）
- 千足山村 ← 千足山村（石鎚村 → 小松町 → 西条市）
- 福岡村 ← 久妙寺村, 今井村, 丹原村, 池田村, 願蓮寺村（丹原町 → 西条市）
- Village of Tano ← 長野村, 田野村上方, 北田野村, 高松村, 川根村（同上）
- 中川村 ← 湯屋口村, 志川村, 寺尾村, 来見村, 石経村, 関屋村, 明穂村の一部（同上）
- 桜樹村 ← 楠窪村, 滑川村, 明河村, 鞍瀬村, 千原村, 臼坂村（中川村 → 丹原町 → 西条市，滑川村・明河村は中川村 → 川内町 → 東温市）
April 1, 1897 - Merged with Kuwamura District to become Shūsō District .

Tano was a village located in Shūfu District later Shūsō District, Ehime Prefecture.

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