Tamba Province
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Tamba Province
Tamba Province (丹波国) is one of the many provinces of Japan.
During the reign of Emperor Sujin, a man known as Tambanochinushi was sent here under the Emperor’s orders to subdue the people there.1
Yamanobe no Ohotaka passed through here on his way to catch a swan for the Prince Homutsuwake.2
Footnotes
1. Aston. W.G. (1896) “Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697”. Tuttle Publishing.
2. Yasumaro. O, translated by Gustav Heldt. (2014) “Kojiki. An Account of Ancient Matters”. New York: Columbia University Press.
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