Hizen Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Saga Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.  Along with Higo Province, it was sometimes called .

Hizen had borders with the provinces of Chikuzen and Chikugo.The province did not include the regions of Tsushima and Iki which are now part of modern Nagasaki prefecture.

The ancient capital city of the province was near Saga.

History
The name "Hizen" dates from the Nara Period, when the province was divided from Higo Province. The name appears in the Shoku Nihongi.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  Maps of Japan and Hizen Province were reformed in the 1870s.

Shrines and Temples

Kawakami jinja and Chiriku Hachiman-gū "Hachiman Shinkō,"  Encyclopedia of Shinto. Retrieved 2011-2-2. were the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Hizen."Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 . Retrieved 2011-1-18.

Related pages
 Hizen Seamount

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
 National Archives of Japan: Hinozenshu sanbutsu zuko, scroll showing illustrated inventory of industries in Hizen, An'ei 2 (1773) 

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Saga Prefecture
Category:Nagasaki Prefecture
Category:Hizen Province