Shima Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shima Province highlighted
Shima Province map

Shima Province (志摩国, Shima no kuni) was a province of Japan which consisted of a peninsula in the southeastern part of modern Mie Prefecture.[1] Its abbreviated name was Shishū (志州). Shima bordered on Ise Province to the west, and on Ise Bay on the north, east and south. It roughly coincides with the modern municipalities of Shima and Toba.

Ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige "Shima" in The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States (六十余州名所図会), depicting Hiyoriyama and Toba Bay

Shima is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō, and was the smallest of all provinces. Under the Engishiki classification system, Shima was ranked as an "inferior country" (下国) and a "near country" (近国), in terms of its distance from the capital.

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Shima" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 857, p. 857, at Google Books.