Kibi Province
province of Japan
Kibi Province (吉備国, Kibi no kuni) was a very old province of Japan in the area as Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Bishū (備州).
History
changeKibi was divided into Bizen, Bitchū, and Bingo provinces in the late 7th century.[2]
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change- ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)."Kibi" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 512.
- ↑ The name of these provinces was created using a kanji character from Kibi. A suffix was added according to the distance from the capital -- Bizen (備+zen = "near"), Bitchū (備+chū = "middle"), and Bingo (備+go = "far").
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