ÅŒsumi Province

The Ōsumi Province (Japanese大 隅 国, Ōsumi no kuni ), also Gushu (隅 州) was an old province of Japan in the eastern part of present-day Kagoshima Prefecture, including the Ōsumi Islands. Ōsumi bordered by the provinces of Satsuma and Hyuga.

History

In the year 713 a riot of Hayato in the region took place, which was crushed. According to the chronicle Nihon Shoki were in the same year on the 3rd day of the 4th month the districts ( kori / gun) Kimotsuki (肝 坏 郡), Suo (囎 唹 郡) Ōsumi (大 隅 郡) and Aira (姶 罗 郡, hived no relationship with the current district Aira ) from the province of Hyūga and it formed the province Ōsumi. At the instruction of the Hayato people were from other provinces located here, including in 714 200 households ( about 5,000 people) from the province of Buzen. Thus we find in the district Kuwabara (桑 原 郡), which was re-established due to the emigration, a village called豊 国the same spelling as the province Toyo from a year earlier was the province of Buzen.

As Kuwabara was added to the time of the district Hishikari (菱 刈 郡) and after the inclusion of the province Tane 824 came Gomu (驭 谟 郡) and Kumage (熊 毛 郡).

The provincial capital ( Kokufu ) was located in the district Kuwabara, probably at today's district Kokubu - Fuchū Kirishima what its name indicates, as referred Kokubu the provincial temples and Fuchū a medieval term for the provincial capital is.

At the beginning of the Kamakura Shogunate, the province as well as neighboring Satsuma Shimazu Tadahisa was ruled as Shugo, but switched in 1217 to the Regent Hōjō family. Only with their overthrow and the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate changed the rule permanently to the Shimazu. By the Sengoku period, the fief of Satsuma was built in 1602 with the Shimazu as daimyo, whose part Ōsumi was so self-developed no major administrative center.

1871, the province fell to the abolition of the feudal system and in the establishment of the prefectures of Kagoshima Prefecture.

Dialect

The Ōsumi region has developed its own local dialect, which differs from the language in the rest of the Kagoshima Prefecture. There is a considerable pride in the traditional poetry written in Ōsumi and Kagoshima dialect.

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