Koshi Province (Japan)

was a very old province of Japan Satow, Ernest. (1874).  "The Geography of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 1-2, p. 35. in the area of Niigata, Fukui and Toyama prefectures on the island of Honshū.

Koshi was also a regional name.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Koshi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 563.   It was in what is now known as the Hokuriku region.  

History
Koshi was divided into Echizen, Etchū, and Echigo provinces in the early 8th century.Satow, p. 35; The name of these provinces was created using a kanji character from Koshi.  A suffix was added according to the distance from the capital -- Echizen (越+zen = "near"), Etchū (越+chū = "middle"), and Echigo (越+go = "far").

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 
  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Niigata Prefecture
Category:Fukui Prefecture
Category:Toyama Prefecture