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Map of Japanese provinces with Kibi highlighted
Kibi Province
(
吉備?
,
Kibi no kuni
)
was a
very old province
of
Japan
in the area as
Okayama Prefecture
and eastern
Hiroshima Prefecture
on the island of
Honsh?
.
[1]
It was sometimes called
Bish?
(
備州
)
.
Kibi was divided into
Bizen
,
Bitch?
, and
Bingo
provinces in the late 7th century.
[2]
- ↑
Nussbaum, Louis-Frederic
. (2005).
"Kibi"
in
Japan Encyclopedia
, p. 512.
- ↑
The name of these provinces was created using a kanji character from Kibi. A suffix was added according to the distance from the
capital
-- Bizen (備+
zen
= "near"), Bitch? (備+
ch?
= "middle"), and Bingo (備+
go
= "far").
