Kii Province

, or , was an old province of Japan in the area of Wakayama Prefecture and Mie Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kii" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 515. 

Kii had borders with Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima, and Yamato Provinces. 

History
During the Edo period, the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clanNussbaum, "Kii" at p. 515; excerpt, "Branch of the Tokugawa family, formed by descendants of Tokugawa Yorinobu, Tokugawa Ieyasu's eighth son" held the castle at Wakayama.

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

Shrines and Temples
Hinokuma-Kunikakasu jinjū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Kii. 
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 ; 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:Mie Prefecture
Category:Wakayama Prefecture