Kaga Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kaga Province highlighted

Kaga Province (加賀国code: ja is deprecated , Kaga no kuni) was an old province in the area of Ishikawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[1] It was sometimes called Kashū (加州code: ja is deprecated ).

History

Chief Shinto shrine of Kaga Province

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Kaga Province were reformed in the 1870s.^[2]

Shrines and Temples

Shirayamahime jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kaga. ^[3]

Kaga Province Media

Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Kaga" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会), depicting fishing fires on Lake Renko

Related pages

References

↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaga" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 445.
↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

Media related to Kaga Province at Wikimedia Commons

Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kaga" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 445.

[2] Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

[3] "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-1-17.

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