Matsura-gun is a historical

county A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French ...

in Japan. It was located in

Hizen Province was an old province of Japan in the area of the Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Higo Province. Hizen bordered on the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo. The province was included in Saikaidō. It did not inclu ...

. The , Sayohime's alluded place of origin, spans the current-day Nagasaki and

Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasak ...

s. However, the specific mountaintop that had been dubbed , as attested in the ''Man'yōshū'', has been identified as the summit of , on the eastern edge of the city of

Karatsu, Saga is a city located in Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. Its name, formed from the Japanese word roots 唐 ''kara'' (China, or continental East Asia in general), and 津 ''tsu'' (port), signifies its historical importance as a ...

. Some versions of the legend of Matsura Sayohime(var. Lady Otohi or Otohi-hime) are classed as the But there is no enduring sign of snake worship in the original vicinity of the legend in the , where a local shrine houses the supposed petrified remains, or , of Lady Matsura.

Kagami Shrine is a Shinto Shinto shrine, shrine located in Karatsu, Saga, Karatsu, Saga prefecture, Japan. The shrine is at the base of () in Genkai Quasi-National Park. It is now called Matsura Sōchinshu Kagami-jinja (松浦総鎮守鏡神社), and former ...

was the main shrine and Soja shrine of Matsura-gun

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* {{cite book , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6b6rAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA187 , title=Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater , date=16 April 2013 , publisher=Columbia University Press , isbn=978-0-231-14658-6 , pages=161–189 , translator-last=Kimbrough , translator-first=R. Keller , ref={{SfnRef, Kimbrough, 2013 , translator-link= Former districts of Nagasaki Prefecture History of Saga Prefecture Former districts of Japan Former districts of Saga Prefecture

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