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- Instance of
- province of Japan
- Has part
- Hiyoshi Taisha
- Named after
- Lake Biwa
- Country
- Japan
- Located in
- Tōsandō
- Body of water
- Lake Biwa
- Shares border with
- Echizen Province
- Image
- 地図 令制国 近江国.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Ōmi Province
- name in kana
- おうみのくに
- category of associated people
- Category:People of Omi Province
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Shiga Prefecture
- coextensive with
- Shiga Prefecture
- Commons category
- Omi Province
- native label
- 近江国
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Omi Province highlighted Ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige of the sailboats at Yahashi, one of the Eight Views of Ōmi, c. 1834 Ōmi Province (近江国, Ōmi no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [oꜜː.mʲi (no kɯ.ɲi)]) was a province of Japan, which today comprises Shiga Prefecture. It was one of the provinces that made up the Tōsandō circuit. Its nickname is Gōshū (江州). Under the Engishiki classification system, Ōmi was ranked as one of the 13 "great countries" (大国) in terms of importance, and one of the "near countries" (近国) in terms of distance from the imperial capital Kyoto.
Ōmi bordered on Wakasa and Echizen Provinces to the north, Mino and Ise Provinces to the east, Iga and Yamato Provinces to the south, and Yamashiro and Tanba Provinces to the west. Lake Biwa, Japan's largest lake, is located at the center of the province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ōmi Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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