Echigo Province

Echigo Province (越後国, Echigo no kuni) was an old province in Japan in the area of Niigata Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[1]

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Echigo Province highlighted

The province had borders with Uzen, Iwashiro, Kōzuke, Shinano, and Etchū Provinces.

History

View of Echigo Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige II, 1859

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Echigo Province were reformed in the 1870s.^[2]

Geography

Echigo faced the Sea of Japan.

Shrines and Temples

Iyahiko jinju and Koko jinja were the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Echigo.^[3]

Related pages

• Provinces of Japan
• Prefectures of Japan
• List of regions of Japan
• List of islands of Japan

References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Echigo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 165.
2. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
3. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

Media related to Echigo Province at Wikimedia Commons

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903