page_title: Hida Province
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hida Province / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Hida Kagowatashi of the Famous Scenes of the Sixty States. 日本語: 『六十余州名所図会 飛騨 籠わたし』
context_page_description: Hida Province is an old province of Japan in the area of Gifu Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called Hishū.
context_section_description: In the late 1580s, Kanamori Nagachika occupied Hida Province. Kanamori's heirs held the province through the Edo Period when it came under direct rule by the Tokugawa shogunate.
  In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Hida Province were reformed in the 1870s.
caption: View of Hida Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1853
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