page_title: Iga Province
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Iga Province / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Igaueno of the Famous Scenes of the Sixty States. 日本語: 『六十余州名所図会　伊賀　上野』
context_page_description: Iga Province was an old province of Japan in the area of Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called Ishū.
  The province had borders with Ise, Ōmi, Yamato, and Yamashiro.
  The capital city of the province was Ueno, also called Iga-Ueno.
context_section_description: In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Iga Province were reformed in the 1870s.
caption: View of Iga Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1853
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