Iga Province

Iga Province (伊賀国, Iga no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[1] It was sometimes called Ishū (伊州).

Map of Japanese provinces with Iga province highlighted

The province had borders with Ise, Ōmi, Yamato, and Yamashiro.

The capital city of the province was Ueno, also called Iga-Ueno.^[2]

History

View of Iga Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1853

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Iga Province were reformed in the 1870s.^[3]

Geography

Iga is a small mountain ringed basin (the Ueno basin) in the center of the Kansai region.

Shrines and Temples

Aekuni jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Iga.^[4]

Related pages

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

References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). "Iga" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 373.
2. Turnbull, Stephen R. (2008). The Samurai Swordsman: Master of War, p. 125.
3. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
4. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

Media related to Iga Province at Wikimedia Commons

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903