Higo Province

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 Hishū (肥州).

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Higo Province highlighted

Higo had borders with Chikugo, Bungo, Hyūga, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Provinces.

HistoryEdit

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 TemplesEdit

Aso-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Higo.^[3]

Related pagesEdit

ReferencesEdit

↑ 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 websitesEdit

Media related to Higo Province at Wikimedia Commons

Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Higo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 310.

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

[3] "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2011-1-18.

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