Higo Province ( 肥後国 , Higo no kuni ) was an old province of Japan in the area that is today Kumamoto Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū . It was sometimes called Hishū ( 肥州 ) , with Hizen Province . Higo bordered on Chikugo , Bungo , Hyūga , Ōsumi , and Satsuma Provinces.
11-521: Higo may refer to: Higo Province , old province in what is now Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan Higo Ko-ryu , Japanese koryū martial art Higo Magalhães (born 1982), Brazilian football manager and former defensive midfielder Higo (footballer) (born 1986), Higo Seara Santos de Oliveira, Brazilian football midfielder Leandro Higo (born 1989), Brazilian mixed martial artist See also [ edit ] El Higo (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
22-513: Is a Japanese historical term referring to the Shinto shrines with the highest rank in a province . Shrines of lower rank were designated ninomiya ( 二宮 , second) , sannomiya ( 三宮 , third) , shinomiya ( 四宮 , fourth) , and so forth. The term gave rise to modern place names, such as the city of Ichinomiya, Aichi , named after Masumida Shrine in the former Owari Province . The term "Ichinomiya" literally means "first shrine" and
33-793: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Higo Province The castle town of Higo was usually at Kumamoto City . During the Muromachi period , Higo was held by the Kikuchi clan , but they were dispossessed during the Sengoku period , and the province was occupied by neighboring lords, including the Shimazu clan of Satsuma , until Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Kyūshū and gave Higo to his retainers, first Sassa Narimasa and later Katō Kiyomasa . The Kato were soon stripped of their lands, and
44-431: Is popularly regarded as the highest ranking shrine in each province . The second ranking shrine is referred to as the "Ninomiya" and third ranking shrine as "Sannomiya", and so on. However, there is no documentary material stipulating on how the shrines in each province are to be ranked, or even when this ranking system was created. As a general rule, all shrines designated "Ichinomiya" are of ancient origin and are listed in
55-623: The Engishiki records completed in 927AD. However, the shrine selected is not necessarily the largest, or oldest, in that province, and is not necessarily one of the " Myojin Taisha ", which are regarded as the most important shrines. Rather, per the Ritsuryō legal and administrative system established in the Nara period , kokushi were appointed as imperial governors of each province. When
66-407: The kokushi travelled from Heian-kyo to his local seat at the provincial capital , the first shrine he called upon officially in his province was the "ichinomiya". As the purpose of this visit was to announce to the local kami of his appointment to office, it was important that this shrine be dedicated to important local deities and to be located close to the provincial capital. Even after
77-541: The collapse of the Ritsuryō system by the Kamakura period , the ichinomiya continued to enjoy a certain prestige, and often after all vestiges of the provincial capital had fallen into ruins and its exact location lost, the term "Ichinomiya" was often preserved as a place name. Tachibana Mitsuyoshi, a noted Shinto scholar in the early Edo Period , visited ichinomiya nationwide for 23 years starting 1675, and wrote
88-592: The provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. Maps of Japan and Higo Province were reformed in the 1870s. At the same time, the province continued to exist for some purposes. For example, Higo is explicitly recognized in the 1894 treaties with the United States and the United Kingdom . Aso-jinja was the chief Shinto shrine ( ichinomiya ) of Higo. Ichinomiya Ichinomiya ( 一宮 , also 一の宮 or 一之宮 ; first shrine)
99-461: The record of his travels in a 13 volume account. This began the popularization of pilgrimages by the common populace to these shrines. Under State Shinto , the ichinomiya were not accorded any special status. Many were accorded high ranks under the Modern system of ranked Shinto shrines . While there can be only one "first shrine" in each province, several provinces have various rival candidates for
110-683: The region was given to the Hosokawa clan . During the Sengoku Period, Higo was a major center for Christianity in Japan , and it is also the location where the philosopher, the artist and swordsman Miyamoto Musashi stayed at the Hosokawa daimyō ' s invitation, Hosokawa Tadatoshi third lord of Kumamoto , while completing his The Book of Five Rings . During the Meiji period ,
121-551: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Higo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Higo&oldid=1206240161 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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