province
A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...
of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
on the
Inland Sea
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side of western
Honshū
, historically called , is the largest and most populous island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaidō across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyūshū across the Kanmon Straits. The island separa ...
, comprising what is today the eastern part of
Hiroshima Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...
. It was sometimes grouped together with Bizen and Bitchu Provinces as . The 備 ''bi'' in the names of these provinces is taken from the second
character
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in the name of
Kibi Province
was an ancient province or region of Japan, in the same area as Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kibi''" in . It was sometimes called .
It was divided into Bizen (備前), Bitchū ( ...
, whose ambit also included the area that would be divided off as
Mimasaka Province
or was a province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today northeastern Okayama Prefecture. Mimasaka bordered Bitchū, Bizen, Harima, Hōki, and Inaba Provinces.
Mimasaka was landlocked, and was often ruled by the ''daimyō'' in Bize ...
in the early 8th century CE. Bingo bordered Bitchū,
Hōki
was a after '' Jingo-keiun'' and before ''Ten'ō''. This period spanned the years from October 770 through January 781. The reigning emperor was .
Change of era
* 770 : The new era name was created to mark an event or series of events. The p ...
,
Izumo Izumo (出雲) may refer to:
Locations
* Izumo Province, an old province of Japan
* Izumo, Shimane, a city located in Shimane Prefecture
** Izumo Airport
* Izumo-taisha, one of Japan's most ancient and important Shinto shrines
Ships
* ''Izumo ...
Aki Province
or Geishū () was a province in the Chūgoku Region of western Honshū, comprising the western part of what is today Hiroshima Prefecture.
History
When Emperor Shōmu ordered two official temples for each province (one for male Buddhist prie ...
s.
The ancient capital is believed to have been in the vicinity of the city of
Fuchu
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. During the
Sengoku Period
The was a period in History of Japan, Japanese history of near-constant civil war and social upheaval from 1467 to 1615.
The Sengoku period was initiated by the Ōnin War in 1467 which collapsed the Feudalism, feudal system of Japan under the ...
, Bingo was part of the Mori clan's domains, but after the
Battle of Sekigahara
The Battle of Sekigahara (Shinjitai: ; Kyūjitai: , Hepburn romanization: ''Sekigahara no Tatakai'') was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 (Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month) in what is now Gifu prefecture, Japan, at the end of ...
,
Tokugawa Ieyasu
was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...
reassigned it to one of his allies.
A notable landmark includes
Fukuyama Castle
, sometimes called or was the castle of the Bingo-Fukuyama Han during the Edo period of Japanese history.
The castle is located in Fukuyama Park in Fukuyama, Hiroshima near Fukuyama Station.
Overview
The castle was built on a hill on the Fuku ...
, which was the main
castle
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Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
of
Japanese history
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to prehistoric times around 30,000 BC. The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new invent ...
Shinto shrine
A is a structure whose main purpose is to house ("enshrine") one or more ''kami'', the deities of the Shinto religion.
Overview
Structurally, a Shinto shrine typically comprises several buildings.
The '' honden''Also called (本殿, meani ...
(''
ichinomiya
is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province. Shrines of lower rank were designated , , , and so forth. ''Encyclopedia of Shinto'' ''Ichi no miya'' retrieved 2013-5-14.
The term gave rise t ...
Hiroshima Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...
Mikami District is a Japanese name.
Place Name
* Mount Mikami, a mountain in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
* Mikami Shrine, a temple at the foot of Mount Mikami
Surname
Notable people with the surname include:
*Kyohei Mikami, Japanese wrestler
*Masataka ...
(三上郡) - merged with Eso and Nuka Districts to become Hiba District on October 1, 1898
** Mitani District (三谿郡) - merged with Miyoshi District to become Futami District (双三郡) on October 1, 1898
**
Mitsugi District
was a district in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
As of 2003, the district had an estimated population of 29,682 and a density of 181.49 persons per km2. The total area was 163.55 km2.
Former towns and villages
* Kui
* Mitsugi
* Mukaishim ...
(御調郡) - dissolved
** Miyoshi District (三次郡) - merged with Mitani District to become Futami District on October 1, 1898
**
Nuka District Nuka can mean:
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(奴可郡) - merged with Eso and Mikami Districts to become Hiba District on October 1, 1898
** Numakuma District (沼隈郡) - dissolved
** Sera District (世羅郡)
** Yasuna District (安那郡) - merged with Fukatsu District to become Fukayasu District on October 1, 1898
** Yoshikatana District (吉刀郡)
See also
*
Fukuyama Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Bingo Province and Bitchū Province in modern-day Hiroshima Prefecture.">DF_39-40_of_80">"Mizuno"_at_''Nobiliare_du_Japon'',_pp._35–36_ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005) ''Japan encyclopedia.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press. OCLC 58053128