Keno Province

Keno Province (毛野国, Keno kuni), also known as Kenu, was a very old province of Japan before the Nara period. Keno was in the area of Tochigi Prefecture and Gunma Prefecture.

History

Kōzuke Province and Shimotsuke Province were known as Keno before the reforms of the Taihō Code in the early 8th century.

References

  1. 1 2 Tsunoda, Ryūsaku et al. (1951). Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories: Later Han through Ming dynasties, p. 18 n25.
  2. ↑ Philippi, Donald L. (1969). Kojiki, p. 585.
  3. ↑ Philippi, p. 486.

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