Kibi Province

Map of Japanese provinces with Kibi highlighted

Template:Nihongo was an ancient province or region of Japan, in the same area as Okayama Prefecture and eastern Hiroshima Prefecture.<ref>Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kibi" in Template:Google books.</ref> It was sometimes called Template:Nihongo.

It was divided into Bizen (備前), Bitchū (備中), and Bingo (備後) Provinces in the late 7th century, and Mimasaka Province was separated from Bizen Province in the 8th century. The first three provinces took a kanji from the name of Kibi, and added zen, chū, and go ("near," "middle," and "far") according to their distance from the capital region.

See also

• Kingdom of Kibi

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Template:ISBN; OCLC 58053128

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