Kii Province
The old province covering today's Wakayama and southern Mie.
Kii Province was a province of Japan on the part of Honshū that is now Wakayama Prefecture and the southern part of Mie Prefecture. It bordered Ise, Izumi, Kawachi, Shima and Yamato Provinces, and the Kii Peninsula takes its name from it. During the Edo period the Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan had its castle at Wakayama; the province's former ichinomiya shrine was Hinokuma Shrine, and the bookshop chain Kinokuniya is named after it.
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- Today
- Wakayama Prefecture and southern Mie Prefecture
- Bordered
- Ise
- Izumi
- Kawachi
- Shima
- Yamato
- Edo-period rulers
- Kii branch of the Tokugawa clan
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