Bingo Province

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Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Bingo Province highlighted

Bingo Province (備後国 Bingo no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of western Honshū, comprising what is today the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture.[1] It was sometimes called Bishū (備州), with Bizen and Bitchu Provinces. Bingo bordered Bitchū, Hōki, Izumo, Iwami, and Aki Provinces.

The ancient capital is believed to have been in the vicinity of the city of Fuchu. During the Sengoku Period, Bingo was part of the Mori clan's domains, but after the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu reassigned it to one of his allies.

A notable landmark includes Fukuyama Castle, which was the main castle of the Bingo-Fukuyama Han (clan) during the Edo period of Japanese history.

Shrines and Temples

Kibitsu jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Bingo. [2]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bingo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 76, p. 76, at Google Books.
  2. ↑ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3; retrieved 2012-11-20.

References

External links

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Kinai
Tōkaidō
Tōsandō
Hokurikudō
San'indō
San'yōdō
Nankaidō
Saikaidō
Hokkaidō
1869-
Pre-Taihō Code
provinces

Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,

"Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."
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