Kii Province

Kii Province (紀伊国, Kii no Kuni), or Kishū (紀州), was an old province of Japan in the area of Wakayama Prefecture and Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[1]

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Kii Province highlighted

Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces.

History

View of Kii Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 19th century

During the Edo period, the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan^[2] held the castle at Wakayama.

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

Shrines and Temples

Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. ^[4]

Related pages

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

References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kii" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 515.
2. Nussbaum, "Kii" at p. 515; excerpt, "Branch of the Tokugawa family, formed by descendants of Tokugawa Yorinobu, Tokugawa Ieyasu's eighth son"
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 Kii Province at Wikimedia Commons

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903