Kii Province

Former province of Japan

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kii Province highlighted

Kii Province (紀伊国, Kii no Kuni), or Kishū (紀州), was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Mie Prefecture.^[1] Kii bordered Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces. The Kii Peninsula takes its name from this province.

During the Edo period, the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan had its castle at Wakayama. Its former ichinomiya shrine was Hinokuma Shrine.

The Japanese bookshop chain Kinokuniya derives its name from the province.

Historical districts

Wakayama Prefecture
- Ama District (海部郡) - merged with Nagusa District to become Kaisō District (海草郡) on April 1, 1896
- Arida District (有田郡)
- Hidaka District (日高郡)
- Ito District (伊都郡)
- Naga District (那賀郡) - dissolved
- Nagusa District (名草郡) - merged with Ama District to become Kaisō District on April 1, 1896
Mixed
- Muro District (牟婁郡)
  - Higashimuro District (東牟婁郡) - part of Wakayama Prefecture
  - Kitamuro District (北牟婁郡) - part of Mie Prefecture
  - Minamimuro District (南牟婁郡) - part of Mie Prefecture
  - Nishimuro District (西牟婁郡) - part of Wakayama Prefecture

Notes

^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kii" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 515, p. 515, at Google Books.

References

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

External links

Media related to Kii Province at Wikimedia Commons

Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

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Former provinces of Japan (List)

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–

Awa
Awaji
Iyo
Kii
Sanuki
Tosa

Hokkaidō
1869–

Pre-Taihō Code
provinces

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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