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Kii Province

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File:Provinces of Japan-Kii.svg
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kii Province highlighted

Lua error in Module:Nihongo at line 88: attempt to call field '_transl' (a nil value)., 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]

Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces.

History[change]

File:Hiroshige Wakanoura.jpg
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 Temples[change]

Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. [4]

Related pages[change]

References[change]

  1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kii" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 515.
  2. Nussbaum, "Kii" at p. 515; excerpt, "Branch of the Tokugawa family, formed by descendants of Tokugawa Yorinobu, Tokugawa Ieyasu's eighth son"
  3. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
  4. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites[change]

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