page_title: List of Provinces of Japan
section_title: Saikaidō
hierarchical_section_title: List of Provinces of Japan / Shichido / Saikaidō
caption_attribution_description: English: An extremely impressive large scale map of the Japanese Empire dating to 1895 or Meiji 28. This map was issued shortly after the 1895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan and is consequently one of the first Japanese maps to include Taiwan and Korea as provinces of Imperial Japan. The map also includes various insets focusing on various Japanese cities and important islands. At the base of the map there are various statistical charts as well as a comparative mountains and rivers chart. At the top center three is a world map showing the various continents with Japan itself highlighted in red.
context_page_description: The List of Provinces of Japan changed over time. The number and borders of provinces evolved from the 7th century through the Meiji Period. In the 1870s, the provinces were replaced by prefectures.
  The traditional way of parsing the land of Japan was "five provinces and seven circuits".
caption: 1895 map of provinces of Empire of Japan
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