Kumaso Province

Kumaso Province or Land of Kumaso^[1] (熊曽国, Kumaso no kuni) was the name of Hyūga Province on the island of Kyushu in the Kojiki.^[2] Its boundaries are within Miyazaki Prefecture.

History

The land of Kumaso is mentioned in the mythological genesis of the island of Kyushu,^[1] and also plays a part in a tale of Yamato Takeru - both recorded in the Kojiki.^[3] The history of Komaso started and ended before the Ritsuryō province system was established at the beginning of the 8th century with the Taihō Code.

References

^ a b Basil Hall Chamberlain (1883). A Translation of the "Ko-Ji-Ki".
^ Brinkley, Frank. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 40.
^ Burke, Stephania, "Hero's Journey for the Yamato Takeru Myth in Kojiki (712)" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, History Through Literature Project, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at the University of California, Berkeley; retrieved 2012-6-24.

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[Chamberlain-1] Basil Hall Chamberlain (1883). A Translation of the "Ko-Ji-Ki".

[2] Brinkley, Frank. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 40.

[3] Burke, Stephania, "Hero's Journey for the Yamato Takeru Myth in Kojiki (712)" Archived 2012-10-05 at the Wayback Machine, History Through Literature Project, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at the University of California, Berkeley; retrieved 2012-6-24.

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Hokurikudō	Echigo Echizen Etchū Kaga Noto Sado Wakasa
San'indō	Hōki Inaba Izumo Iwami Oki Tajima Tanba Tango
San'yōdō	Aki Bingo Bitchū Bizen Harima Mimasaka Nagato Suō
Nankaidō	Awa Awaji Iyo Kii Sanuki Tosa
Saikaidō	Bungo Buzen Chikugo Chikuzen Higo Hizen Hyūga Iki Ōsumi Satsuma Tane 702–824 Tsushima
Hokkaidō 1869–	Chishima Hidaka Iburi Ishikari Kitami Kushiro Nemuro Oshima Shiribeshi Teshio Tokachi
Pre-Taihō Code provinces	Chichibu Fusa Hi Keno Kibi Koshi Kumaso Toyo Tsukushi
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'."