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was a Province of Japan , which today comprises Tokyo Prefecture , most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture , mainly Kawasaki and Yokohama . Musashi bordered on Kai , Kōzuke , Sagami , Shimousa , and Shimotsuke Province s.

Musashi was the largest province in the Kantō Region . It had its ancient capital in modern Fuchu, Tokyo and its provincial temple in what is now Kokubunji, Tokyo . By the Sengoku period, the main city was Edo , which became the dominant city of eastern Japan. Edo Castle was the headquarters of Tokugawa Ieyasu before the Battle Of Sekigahara and became the dominant city of Japan during the Edo Period , being renamed Tokyo during the Meiji Restoration .

It gave its name to the battleship of the Second World War '' Musashi ''.

See also Miyamoto Musashi .

HISTORICAL RECORD

''''' is enthroned at the age of 48.Brown, Delmer. (1979). ''Gukanshō,'' p. 271.

''Keiun 4'' ( in the region which includes modern day Tokyo.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). ''Nipon o daï itsi ran,'' p. 63.

''Keiun 5'' ('' for this new reign became a way to mark the welcome discovery of copper in the Chichibu District of what is now Saitama Prefecture .Titsingh, p. 63. The Japanese word for copper is ''dō'' (銅); and since this was indigenous copper, the ''"wa"'' (the ancient Chinese term for Japan) could be combined with the ''"dō"'' (copper) to create a new composite term -- ''"wadō"'' -- meaning "Japanese copper."

'' Wadō gannen'' or '''''Wadō 1''''', on the 11th day of the 4th month ( 708 ): A sample of the newly discovered Musashi copper from was presented in Gemmei's Court where it was formally acknowledged as ''Japanese copper.''Titsingh, p. 63. The Wadō era is famous for the first Japanese coin (和同開珎, ''wadokaiho/wadokaichin'').

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Brown, Delmer and Ichiro Ishida, eds. ''.

. --''Two digitized examples of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006.'' Click here to read the original text in French.