Shimōsa Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shimōsa Province highlighted

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The province had borders with Kazusa Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north.

History

 
View of Shimōsa Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1856-1858

Shimōsa was part of a larger territory known as Lua error in Module:Unicode_data at line 293: attempt to index local 'data_module' (a boolean value).. Fusa which was divided into Kazusa and Shimōsa during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654).

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

Shrines and Temples

Katori jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Shimōsa. [3]

Related pages

References

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shimōsa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 862.
  2. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  3. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

  Media related to Shimosa Province at Wikimedia Commons