Shimōsa Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shimōsa" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 862.  It was also known as  or . 

The province had borders with Kazusa  Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north. 

History
Shimōsa was part of a larger territory known as . Fusa which was divided into Kazusa and Shimōsa during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654).  

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

Shrines and Temples
Katori jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Shimōsa.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 ; retrieved 2012-1-17.

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:Chiba Prefecture