Kinai
{{Short description|Administrative unit of ancient Japan}}
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{{nihongo|Kinai|畿内||{{IPA|ja|kʲiꜜ.nai}}{{cite book|script-title=ja:NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典|publisher=NHK Publishing|editor=NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute|date=24 May 2016|lang=ja}}}} is a Japanese term denoting an ancient division of the country. Kinai is a name for the ancient provinces around the capital Nara and Heian-kyō.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kinai" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|Japan Encyclopedia, p. 521|page=521}}. The five provinces were called go-kinai after 1760.Nussbaum, "Gokishichidō" in {{Google books|p2QnPijAEmEC|at p. 255|page=255}}.
The name is still used to describe part of the Kansai region, but the area of the Kinai corresponds only generally to the land of the old provinces.
The region was established as one of the Gokishichidō ("Five provinces and seven roads") during the Asuka period (538-710). It consisted of Yamashiro, Yamato, Settsu, Kawachi, and Izumi provinces.
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References
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- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC Japan encyclopedia.] Cambridge: Harvard University Press. {{ISBN|978-0-674-01753-5}}; [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58053128?referer=di&ht=edition OCLC 58053128]
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