Keno Province

Keno Province (毛野国, Keno kuni), also known as Kenu, was a very old province of Japan before the Nara period.^[1] Keno was in the area of Tochigi Prefecture^[2] and Gunma Prefecture.^[3]

History

Kōzuke Province and Shimotsuke Province were known as Keno before the reforms of the Taihō Code in the early 8th century.^[1]

Related pages

• Provinces of Japan
• Prefectures of Japan
• List of regions of Japan
• List of islands of Japan

References

1. 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.

Other websites

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903