Kumaso Province
Former province of Japan
Kumaso Province or Land of Kumaso[1] (熊曽国, Kumaso no kuni) was the name of Hyūga Province on the island of Kyushu in the Kojiki.[2] Its boundaries are within Miyazaki Prefecture.
History
The land of Kumaso is mentioned in the mythological genesis of the island of Kyushu,[1] and also plays a part in a tale of Yamato Takeru - both recorded in the Kojiki.[3] The history of Komaso started and ended before the Ritsuryō province system was established at the beginning of the 8th century with the Taihō Code.
References
- ^ a b Basil Hall Chamberlain (1883). A Translation of the "Ko-Ji-Ki".
- ^ Brinkley, Frank. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 40.
- ^ Burke, Stephania, "Hero's Journey for the Yamato Takeru Myth in Kojiki (712)" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, History Through Literature Project, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at the University of California, Berkeley; retrieved 2012-6-24.
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Former provinces of Japan (List)
- Izumi
- Kawachi
- Settsu
- Yamashiro
- Yamato
- Yoshino 716–738
1869–
provinces
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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