was an old province of

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on the east coast of

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, corresponding to the modern

Miyazaki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Miyazaki Prefecture has a population of 1,073,054 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 7,735 km2 (2,986 sq mi). Miyazaki Prefecture borders Ōita Prefecture to the north, Ku ...

. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hyūga''" in . It was sometimes called or . Hyūga bordered on Bungo,

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, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Province. The ancient capital was near Saito.

History

In the ''

Kojiki The , also sometimes read as or , is an early Japanese chronicle of myths, legends, hymns, genealogies, oral traditions, and semi-historical accounts down to 641 concerning the origin of the Japanese archipelago, the , and the Japanese imperia ...

'' and the '' Nihon Shoki'', Hyūga is called of Tsukushi-no-shima (Kyushu), along the provinces of

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, Toyo and Hi. In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the '' Wadō'' era (713), the land of Hyūga was administratively separated from Ōsumi Province (大隅国). In that same year, Empress Genmei's ''

Daijō-kan The , also known as the Great Council of State, was (i) (''Daijō-kan'') the highest organ of Japan's premodern Imperial government under the Ritsuryō legal system during and after the Nara period or (ii) (''Dajō-kan'') the highest organ of J ...

'' continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the

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. Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). During the

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, the area was often divided into a northern fief around Agata castle (near modern Nobeoka), and a southern

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around Obi castle, near modern Nichinan. The southern fief was held by the

Shimazu clan The were the '' daimyō'' of the Satsuma han, which spread over Satsuma, Ōsumi and Hyūga provinces in Japan. The Shimazu were identified as one of the '' tozama'' or outsider ''daimyō'' familiesAppert, Georges ''et al.'' (1888). in cont ...

of nearby Satsuma for much of the period. The

Itō clan The are a Japanese clan of '' gōzoku'' that claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan through Fujiwara Korekimi (727–789) and Kudō Ietsugu. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Pa ...

held control of Hyuga until it was conquered by the Shimazu in 1578.

Historical districts

** Koyu District (児湯郡) ** Miyazaki District (宮崎郡) - absorbed Kitanaka District on April 1, 1896; now dissolved ** Naka District (那珂郡) *** Kitanaka District (北那珂郡) - merged into Miyazaki District on April 1, 1896 *** Minaminaka District (南那珂郡) - dissolved ** Usuki District (臼杵郡) *** Higashiusuki District (東臼杵郡) *** Nishiusuki District (西臼杵郡) * Mixed ** Morokata District (諸県郡) *** Higashimorokata District (東諸県郡) - became part of Miyazaki Prefecture on May 9, 1883 *** Kitamorokata District (北諸県郡) - became part of Miyazaki Prefecture on May 9, 1883 *** Minamimorokata District (南諸県郡) - became part of

Kagoshima Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu and the Ryukyu Islands. Kagoshima Prefecture has a population of 1,599,779 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi). Kagoshima Prefecture borders Kumamoto P ...

on May 9, 1883; later merged with Higashisoo District (東囎唹郡) (also from Kagoshima Prefecture) to become the 2nd incarnation of Soo District (囎唹郡) on March 29, 1896 *** Nishimorokata District (西諸県郡) - became part of Miyazaki Prefecture on May 9, 1883

Notes

References

* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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.
OCLC 58053128
* Titsingh, Isaac. (1834)
''Annales des empereurs du Japon''
(''

Nihon Ōdai Ichiran , ', is a 17th-century chronicle of the serial reigns of Japanese emperors with brief notes about some of the noteworthy events or other happenings. According to the 1871 edition of the '' American Cyclopaedia'', the 1834 French translation of ...

''). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland
OCLC 5850691

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