Hitachi Province
Lua error in Module:Nihongo at line 88: attempt to call field '_transl' (a nil value). was an old province of Japan in the area of Ibaraki Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Jōshū (常州).
The province had borders with Iwashiro, Iwaki, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.
The ancient capital city of the province was near Ishioka.
History[change]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Hitachi Province were reformed in the 1870s.[2]
Shrines and Temples[change]
Kashima jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Hitachi. [3]
Related pages[change]
References[change]
- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780; "Hitachi fudoki" at p. 336
- ↑ Nussbaum, p. 780.
- ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.
Other websites[change]
File:Commons-logo.svg Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
