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Awa Province (Tokushima)

A map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Awa Province (Tokushima) highlighted

Awa Province (阿波国, Awa-no kuni)[1] was an old province of Japan in the area of Tokushima Prefecture on the island of Shikoku.[2] It was sometimes called Ashū (阿州).

Awa had borders with Tosa, Sanuki, and Iyo Provinces.

  1. Awa Province on Honshū sounds like it has the same name, but it is written with different kanji (安房国).
  2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Awa no Kuni" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 62.

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