province of Japan in the part of Honshū that is today Wakayama Prefecture, as well as the southern part of Mie Prefecture From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces.
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]
Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. [4]
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