Kii Province
province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Mie Prefecture
Kii Province (紀伊国, Kii no Kuni), or Kishū (紀州), was an old province of Japan in the area of Wakayama Prefecture and Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1]
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kii Province highlighted
Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces.
HistoryEdit
View of Kii Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 19th century
During the Edo period, the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan[2] held the castle at Wakayama.
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Kii Province were reformed in the 1870s.[3]
Shrines and TemplesEdit
Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. [4]
Related pagesEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kii" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 515.
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Kii" at p. 515; excerpt, "Branch of the Tokugawa family, formed by descendants of Tokugawa Yorinobu, Tokugawa Ieyasu's eighth son"
- ↑ Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.
Other websitesEdit
Media related to Kii Province at Wikimedia Commons
