Kii Province
Appearance
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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]
Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces.
History[change | change source]
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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 | change source]
Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. [4]
Related pages[change | change source]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 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 websites[change | change source]
Media related to Kii Province at Wikimedia Commons