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'Hyūga' (日向国; Hyūga ''-no kuni'') was an old province of Japan on the east coast of Kyūshū, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki prefecture. Hyuga bordered on Bungo, Higo, Osumi, and Satsuma Provinces.
The ancient capital was near Saito.

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Historical record

References

Notes

Further reading

Historical record

In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the ''Wadō'' era (713),
the land of Hyūga''-no kuni'' was administratively separated from Osumi province (大隈国). In that same year, Empress Gemmei's ''Daijō-kan'' continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period.
In ''Wadō'' 6, Mimasaka province (美作国) was sundered from Bizen province (備前国); and Tamba province (丹波国) was divided from Tango province (丹後国).^[1] In ''Wadō'' 5 (712), Mutsu province (陸奥国) had been severed from Dewa province (出羽国).^[1]
During the Sengoku period, the area was often divided into a northern fief around Agata castle (near modern Nobeoka), and a southern fief around Obi castle, near modern Nichinan. The southern fief was held by the Shimazu clan of nearby Satsuma for much of the period.

References

Notes

1. Titsingh, p. 64.
2. Titsingh, p. 64.

Further reading

★ Titsingh, Isaac, ed. (1834). [Siyun-sai Rin-siyo, 1652], ''Nipon o daï itsi ran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon, tr. par M. Isaac Titsingh avec l'aide de plusieurs interprètes attachés au comptoir hollandais de Nangasaki; ouvrage re., complété et cor. sur l'original japonais-chinois, accompagné de notes et précédé d'un Aperçu d'histoire mythologique du Japon, par M. J. Klaproth.'' Paris: Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.--''Two copies of this rare book have now been made available online: (1) from the library of the University of Michigan, digitized January 30, 2007; and (2) from the library of Stanford University, digitized June 23, 2006.'' Click here to read the original text in French.