| Fusa Province 総国 or 捄国 | |||||||||||
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| Province of Japan | |||||||||||
| 7th century | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture. | ||||||||||
Fusa Province (総国 or 捄国, Fusa no kuni) was an ancient province of Japan, in the area of Shimōsa ("Lower Fusa") and Kazusa ("Upper Fusa") provinces.[1] At the time of the establishment of Kazusa Province, it also included the southern tip of the Bōsō Peninsula that would later be split off as Awa Province. The ambit of this ancient entity is within Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture.[2] It was sometimes called Sōshū (総州).
- ^ Satow, Ernest. (1874). "The Geography of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 1-2, p. 35., p. 35, at Google Books; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fusa no Kuni" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 224, p. 224, at Google Books.
- ^ Nussbaum, "Shimosa" in p. 862, p. 862, at Google Books; "Kazusa" at p. 502, p. 502, at Google Books