Nukata
(
額田郡
,
Nukata-gun
)
is a
district
located in central
Aichi Prefecture
,
Japan
.
As a result of various consolidations and mergers of municipalities, most of the district was incorporated into the cities of
Okazaki
and
Toyota
, and now consists of only the town of
K?ta
.
As of October 1, 2019, the district had an estimated
population
of 42,200 with a
density
of 744 persons per km
2
. Its total area was 56.72 km
2
.
Municipalities
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The district consists of one town:
- Notes
History
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Nukata is one of the ancient counties of western
Mikawa Province
. During the
Sengoku period
, most of the area of the district was controlled by the
Matsudaira clan
. In the
Edo period
, under the
Tokugawa shogunate
, large portions were administered by the
feudal domains
of
Okazaki Domain
,
Okutono Domain
and
Nishi-Ohira Domain
. After the
Meiji Restoration
, the area became the short-lived "Nukata Prefecture", which was then merged into Aichi Prefecture.
District Timeline
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In the cadastral reforms of the early Meiji period, on October 1, 1889, Nukata District was divided into one town (Okazaki) and 26 villages. The village of Fukuoka was raised to town status on November 8, 1893, followed by Hirohata village on May 13, 1895. In a round of consolidation in May 1906, the remaining number of villages was reduced from 24 to 15. The town of Hirohata was annexed by Okazaki on October 1, 1914. Okazaki attained city status on July 1, 1916. The village of Iwazu became a town on September 1, 1928 and later the same year, three neighboring villages were annexed by Okazaki, leaving the district with two towns and 11villages.
Following World War II, on April 1, 1952 the village of K?ta gained town status. On August 1, 1954 the village of Toyosaka (from
Hazu District
) was merged into the town of K?ta.
The towns of Iwazu and Fukuoka, and the villages of Motojuku, Yamanaka, Fujikawa, Ryudani and Tokiwa were merged into the city of Okazaki on February 1, 1955; and on September 30, 1956, the villages of Toyotomi, Miyazaki, Katano, and parts of Shimoyama were merged to form the town of
Nukata
.
Despite pressure from the central government, on November 14, 2003 K?ta declined to participate the Okazaki-Nukata Region Merger Conference. As a result of this Conference, on January 1, 2006 Nukata
merged
into the city of Okazaki, leaving K?ta as the only remaining portion of Nukata District.
Recent mergers
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- On January 1, 2006 - The town of
Nukata
was merged into the expanded city of
Okazaki
.
External links
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34°52′N
137°10′E
/
34.867°N 137.167°E
/
34.867; 137.167