Bingo Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Bingo Province highlighted

Bingo Province (備後国, Bingo no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of western Honshū, comprising what is today the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture.^[1] It was sometimes grouped together with Bizen and Bitchu Provinces as Bishū (備州). The 備 bi in the names of these provinces is taken from the second character in the name of Kibi Province, whose ambit also included the area that would be divided off as Mimasaka Province in the early 8th century CE. Bingo bordered Bitchū, Hōki, Izumo, Iwami, and Aki Provinces.

The ancient capital is believed to have been in the vicinity of the city of Fuchu. During the Sengoku Period, Bingo was part of the Mori clan's domains, but after the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu reassigned it to one of his allies.

A notable landmark includes Fukuyama Castle, which was the main castle of the Bingo-Fukuyama han (clan) during the Edo period of Japanese history.

Shrines and temples[]

Kibitsu jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Bingo. ^[2]

Historical districts[]

Hiroshima Prefecture
- (芦田郡) - merged with Hōnji District to become Ashina District (芦品郡) on October 1, 1898
- (恵蘇郡) - merged with Mikami and Nuka Districts to become Hiba District (比婆郡) on October 1, 1898
- (深津郡) - merged with Yasuna District to become Fukayasu District (深安郡) on October 1, 1898
- (品治郡) - merged with Ashida District to become Ashina District on October 1, 1898
- Jinseki District (神石郡)
- Kōnu District (甲奴郡) - dissolved
- (三上郡) - merged with Eso and Nuka Districts to become Hiba District on October 1, 1898
- (三谿郡) - merged with Miyoshi District to become Futami District (双三郡) on October 1, 1898
- Mitsugi District (御調郡) - dissolved
- (三次郡) - merged with Mitani District to become Futami District on October 1, 1898
- (奴可郡) - merged with Eso and Mikami Districts to become Hiba District on October 1, 1898
- (沼隈郡) - dissolved
- Sera District (世羅郡)
- (安那郡) - merged with Fukatsu District to become Fukayasu District on October 1, 1898
- (吉刀郡)

Notes[]

^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bingo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 76, p. 76, at Google Books.
^ "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-20.

References[]

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

External links[]

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[1] Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Bingo" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 76, p. 76, at Google Books.

[2] "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-11-20.

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hide v t Former provinces of Japan (List)
Kinai	Izumi Kawachi Settsu Yamashiro Yamato Yoshino 716–738
Tōkaidō	Awa Hitachi Iga Ise Izu Kai Kazusa Mikawa Musashi Owari Sagami Shima Shimōsa Suruga Tōtōmi
Tōsandō	Dewa -1869 Hida Iwaki 718–724 Iwaki 1869– Iwase 718–724 Iwashiro 1869– Kōzuke Mino Ōmi Mutsu –1869 Rikuō (or Mutsu) 1869– Rikuchū 1869– Rikuzen 1869– Shimotsuke Shinano Suwa 721–731 Ugo 1869– Uzen 1869–
Hokurikudō	Echigo Echizen Etchū Kaga Noto Sado Wakasa
San'indō	Hōki Inaba Izumo Iwami Oki Tajima Tanba Tango
San'yōdō	Aki Bingo Bitchū Bizen Harima Mimasaka Nagato Suō
Nankaidō	Awa Awaji Iyo Kii Sanuki Tosa
Saikaidō	Bungo Buzen Chikugo Chikuzen Higo Hizen Hyūga Iki Ōsumi Satsuma Tane 702–824 Tsushima
Hokkaidō 1869–	Chishima Hidaka Iburi Ishikari Kitami Kushiro Nemuro Oshima Shiribeshi Teshio Tokachi
Pre-Taihō Code provinces	Chichibu Fusa Hi Keno Kibi Koshi Kumaso Toyo Tsukushi
Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt, "Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."