Kumaso Province
{{Short description|Former province of Japan}}
File:Yamato Takerunomikoto & Kawakami Takeru.jpg defeated Marshal Kawakami of Kumaso]]
{{nihongo|Kumaso Province or Land of Kumaso{{Cite book|author=Basil Hall Chamberlain|author-link=Basil Hall Chamberlain|title=A Translation of the "Ko-Ji-Ki"|year=1883|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj012.htm}}|熊曽国|Kumaso no Kuni|{{IPA|ja|kɯꜜ.ma.so (no kɯ.ɲi)}}{{cite book|script-title=ja:NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典|publisher=NHK Publishing|editor=NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute|date=24 May 2016|lang=ja}}}} was the name of Hyūga Province on the island of Kyushu in the Kojiki.Brinkley, Frank. (1915). [https://books.google.com/books?id=NnsEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA40&dq= A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 40]. Its boundaries are within Miyazaki Prefecture.
History
The land of Kumaso is mentioned in the mythological genesis of the island of Kyushu, and also plays a part in a tale of Yamato Takeru - both recorded in the Kojiki.Burke, Stephania, [http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/yamato/plot_yamato.html "Hero's Journey for the Yamato Takeru Myth in Kojiki (712)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005004012/http://orias.berkeley.edu/hero/yamato/plot_yamato.html |date=2012-10-05 }}, History Through Literature Project, Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS) at the University of California, Berkeley; retrieved 2012-6-24. The history of Komaso started and ended before the Ritsuryō province system was established at the beginning of the 8th century with the Taihō Code.
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