Fusa Province

Fusa Province (総国 or 捄国, Fusa-no kuni) was a very old province of Japan in the area of Shimōsa and Kazusa provinces on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Sōshū (総州).

The boundaries of this ancient entity are within Chiba Prefecture and Ibaraki Prefecture.[2]

History

The history of the province started and ended before the Taihō Code was established at the beginning of the 8th century.

Notes
  1. Satow, Ernest. (1874). "The Geography of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 1-2, p. 35.; Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Fusa no Kuni" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 224.
  2. Nussbaum, "Shimosa" at p. 862; "Kazusa" at p. 502.

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