Higo Province

Higo Province (肥後国; Higo no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Higo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 310.  Along with Hizen Province, it was sometimes called . 

Higo had borders with Chikugo, Bungo, Hyūga, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Provinces.

History
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  Maps of Japan and Higo Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

Shrines and Temples

Aso-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Higo."Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 ; retrieved 2011-1-18.

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:Kumamoto Prefecture