Hizen Province (肥前国, Hizen no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of the Saga and Nagasaki prefectures. It was sometimes called Hishū (肥州),...
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Hizen (肥前町, Hizen-chō) was a town located in the Higashimatsuura District of Saga Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town had an estimated population...
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Russian battleship Retvizan (redirect from Japanese battleship Hizen)
in January 1905. She was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy as Hizen (肥前) in 1908. Based in Sasebo when Japan declared war on Germany in 1914...
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The Hizen-Arima clan (Japanese: 肥前有馬氏, Hepburn: Hizen-Arima-shi) is a Japanese samurai family. From 1695 until 1871 they ruled the Maruoka Domain as daimyo...
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Torii (section Hizen torii)
the gakuzuka Sannō torii – a myōjin torii with a gable above the kasagi Hizen torii – an unusual style with a rounded kasagi and thick, flared pillars...
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medieval and early modern Japanese samurai family who ruled Hirado Domain in Hizen Province on the island of Kyushu. They started as a group of military families...
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Arita ware (redirect from Hizen ware)
the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū island. It is also known as Hizen ware (肥前焼, Hizen-yaki) after the wider area of the...
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Kōhoku Station (Saga) (redirect from Hizen-Yamaguchi Station)
the Sasebo Line and Hizen-Yamaguchi replaced Haiki as the starting point. A new track branching from Hizen-Yamaguchi through Hizen-Ōura to Nagasaki built...
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Tosu - Kōhoku Isahaya - Kikitsu Urakami - Nagasaki Electrification: Tosu - Hizen-Hama (20kV AC 60 Hz) Railway signalling: Automatic CTC center: Hakata Integrated...
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castle located in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. Nagoya Castle was located within Hizen Province on a peninsula near to Iki Island, and served as the base from...
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(June 11, 1659 – November 30, 1719), was a samurai of the Saga Domain in Hizen Province under his lord Nabeshima Mitsushige. He became a Zen Buddhist priest...
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Hizen-Shiroishi Station (肥前白石駅, Hizenshiroishi-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Shiroishi, Kishima District, Saga Prefecture...
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List of battleships of Japan (section Hizen)
terms of the Washington Naval Treaty and was probably scrapped afterward. Hizen, originally Retvizan (Ретвизан), was a Russian pre-dreadnought battleship...
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Hizen-Kashima Station (肥前鹿島駅, Hizenkashima-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kashima, Saga Prefecture. It is operated by JR Kyushu...
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Hizen-Iida Station (肥前飯田駅, Hizeniida-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the city of Kashima, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR...
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Hizen-Ōura Station (肥前大浦駅, Hizen'ōura-eki) is a passenger railway station located in the town of Tara, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu...
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Saga Domain (redirect from Hizen Domain)
daimyō Nabeshima clan. The domain was also referred to as Hizen Domain (肥前藩) after its locan in Hizen Province or Nabeshima Domain (鍋島藩) after its ruling clan...
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part of Saga Prefecture. On January 1, 2005, Kitahata, Chinzei, Hamatama, Hizen, Kyūragi, Ōchi and Yobuko (all from Higashimatsuura District) were merged...
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Matsunaga clan (section Hizen and Higo Matsunaga Clans)
The Matsunaga clan (松永氏, Matsunaga-shi) is a Japanese Samurai Clan who are descended from the Fujiwara clan. The lineage of Matsunaga Danjo Hisahide strengthens...
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Hizen-Hama Station (肥前浜駅, Hizenhama-eki) is a passenger railway station in located in the city of Kashima, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR...
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Nagoya (名護屋) was the location of a castle in Matsuura District, Hizen Province, Japan. Today, the area is part of Chinzei in the city of Karatsu in Japan's...
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Hizen-Kubo Station (肥前久保駅, Hizen-Kubo-eki) is a passenger railway station on the Chikuhi Line of Kyushu Railway Company (JR Kyushu), located in the city...
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The Hizen Provincial Capital site (肥前国庁跡, Hizen Kokuchō ato) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of the Nara period to early Heian period...
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Hayashi Narinaga (redirect from Hayashi Hizen-no-kami Narinaga)
was a bugyō under Mōri Terumoto. From Hideyoshi he received the rank of Hizen-no-kami (肥前守). He served as diplomat between the Mōri and Hideyoshi. Later...
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Officials from the favored former han, such as Satsuma, Chōshū, Tosa, and Hizen staffed the new ministries. Formerly old court nobles, and lower-ranking...
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ancient provinces of Saikaidō situated on the island: Chikuzen, Chikugo, Hizen, Higo, Buzen, Bungo, Hyūga, Osumi, and Satsuma. Today's Kyūshū Region (九州地方...
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Saigō Takamori (1827–77), who had joined forces with Chōshū, Tosa, and Hizen to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. Okubo became minister of finance and...
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target for strategic bombing by the Allies during the war. Plan of Nagasaki, Hizen province, 1778 View of Dejima in Nagasaki Bay by Kawahara Keigo c. 1836...
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Ōmura-shi) was a clan of samurai of Medieval Japan of the province of Hizen descended from Fujiwara no Sumitomo (died 941). The clan is notable for...
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linking to the existing Nagasaki Main Line, along which it would travel to Hizen Yamaguchi (37.6 km (23.4 mi)), then onto the Sasebo Line to Takeo-Onsen...
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