Higo Province
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Higo Province highlighted
Higo Province (肥後国; Higo no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.[1] Along with Hizen Province, it was sometimes called Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value)..
Higo had borders with Chikugo, Bungo, Hyūga, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Provinces.
History
View of Higo Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1856
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. Maps of Japan and Higo Province were reformed in the 1870s.[2]
Shrines and Temples
Aso-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Higo.[3]
Higo Province Media
Statue of Hosokawa Tadatoshi within Suizen-ji Jōju-en.
Mon of Miyamoto Musashi born in Ōhara-chō province of Mimasaka.
Related pages
References
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Higo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 310.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2011-1-18.
Other websites
Media related to Higo Province at Wikimedia Commons
