Hi Province

Former province of Japan

Hi Province (火国 or 肥国, Hi no kuni) was an ancient province of Japan, in the area of Hizen and Higo provinces.^[1] The ambit of this ancient entity is within Nagasaki, Saga and Kumamoto prefectures.^[2] It was sometimes called Hishū (肥州).

Notes

^ Satow, Ernest. (1874). "The Geography of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 1-2, p. 34., p. 34, at Google Books
^ ; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Hizen" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 338, p. 338, at Google Books; "Higo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 310, p. 310, at Google Books.

References

Asiatic Society of Japan. (1874). Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan. Yokohama: The Society. OCLC 1514456
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

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Former provinces of Japan (List)

Kinai

Izumi
Kawachi
Settsu
Yamashiro
Yamato
Yoshino 716–738

Tōkaidō

Dewa -1869
Hida
Iwaki 718–724
Iwaki 1869–
Iwase 718–724
Iwashiro 1869–
Kōzuke
Mino
Ōmi
Mutsu –1869
Rikuō (or Mutsu) 1869–
Rikuchū 1869–
Rikuzen 1869–
Shimotsuke
Shinano
Suwa 721–731
Ugo 1869–
Uzen 1869–

Hokkaidō
1869–

Pre-Taihō Code
provinces

Hi

Koshi

Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,

"Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."

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