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was an old province of Japan on the east coast of Kyūshū, corresponding to the modern Miyazaki Prefecture.〔Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hyūga''" in .〕 It was sometimes called or . Hyūga bordered on Bungo, Higo, Ōsumi, and Satsuma Province. The ancient capital was near Saito. ==History== In the ''Kojiki'' and the ''Nihon Shoki'', Hyūga is called of Tsukushi-no-shima (Kyushu), along the provinces of Tsukushi, Toyo and Hi. In the 3rd month of the 6th year of the ''Wadō'' era (713), the land of Hyūga''-no kuni'' was administratively separated from Ōsumi Province (大隈国). In that same year, Empress Gemmei's ''Daijō-kan'' continued to organize other cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara Period.〔Titsingh, Isaac.. (1834). 〕 During the Sengoku Period, the area was often divided into a northern fief around Agata castle (near modern Nobeoka), and a southern fief around Obi castle, near modern Nichinan. The southern fief was held by the Shimazu clan of nearby Satsuma for much of the period. The Itō clan held control of Hyuga until it was conquered by the Shimazu in 1578. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hyūga Province」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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