Kumaso Province

former province of Japan

Kumaso Province (熊曽国, Kumaso-no kuni) was a very old province of Japan in the area of Hyūga Province on the island of Honshū.[1] Its boundaries are within Miyazaki Prefecture.

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Komaso is part of the tale of Yamato Takeru which is recorded in the Kojiki.[2] The history of Komaso started and ended before the Taihō Code was established at the beginning of the 8th century.

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  1. Brinkley, Frank. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 40.
  2. Burke, Stephania, "Hero's Journey for the Yamato Takeru Myth in Kojiki (712)" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, History Through Literature Project, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at the University of California, Berkeley; retrieved 2012-6-24.

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