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Owari, formally
written as Owari no Kuni (尾張国)
was an
old province of
Japan that is now the western half of present day
Aichi
prefecture. Its abbreviation is Bishu (尾州).
In
1871 with the
abolition of feudal domains and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan
Chiken) after the
Meiji Restoration, the provinces of Owari and
Mikawa were combined to eventually establish Aichi prefecture in late
1872.
Two of the most famous warlord generals of Japan's
Sengoku period,
Oda Nobunaga and
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, were natives of Owari province.
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