Matsura-gun

松浦郡

Today part ofNagasaki prefecture, Saga prefecture

Matsura-gun is a historical county in Japan. It was located in Hizen Province.[1]

The Matsura region, Sayohime's alluded place of origin, spans the current-day Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures.[2] However, the specific mountaintop that had been dubbed Hirefurinomine (領巾麾嶺, "Scarf-Waving Peak"), as attested in the Man'yōshū,[3] has been identified as the summit of Mount Kagami [ja], on the eastern edge of the city of Karatsu, Saga.[a]

Some versions of the legend of Matsura Sayohime(var. Lady Otohi or Otohi-hime) are classed as the Miwasan-kei setsuwa (三輪山型説話, "stories of the Mt. Miwa pattern")[b] But there is no enduring sign of snake worship in the original vicinity of the legend in the Matsura region, where a local shrine houses the supposed petrified remains, or bōfuseki (望夫石, "rock that contemplates the husband"), of Lady Matsura.[c]

Kagami Shrine was the main shrine and Soja shrine of Matsura-gun[citation needed]

  1. ^ Yoshida, Keiichi (1968). "A Historico-geographical Study of Western Part of Matsuura-gun in Hizen Province". Japanese Journal of Human Geography. 20 (5): 570–586. doi:10.4200/jjhg1948.20.570.
  2. ^ Kimbrough (2013), p. 60.
  3. ^ Nagano (1974), p. 1.
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