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3 unusual facts about Mino Province


Hirate Masahide

The next year, he exerted himself to establish peace between Nobuhide and his agelong rival Saitō Dōsan of Mino Province, and to arrange the marriage between Nobunaga and Dōsan's daughter Nōhime.

Nangū Taisha

This shrine was recorded in the Engishiki Jinmyōchō (延喜式神名帳), a book from the mid-10th century; at that time, the shrine was Mino Province's ichinomiya.

Takenaka Shigekata

Takenaka Shigekata was born in 1828 in the town of Iwate, in Mino Province, the son of Tokugawa retainer Takenaka Motoyuki.


Kakuen

According to that, in Neo, Mino Province (now Motosu, Gifu Prefecture), to a woman who lived at Senjo River, a suspicious phantom-like man would appear at night and visit, and attempted to have intercourse with her.

Prince Takechi

At the age of 19, he was dispatched by his father to the battle front in what is now Fuwa District, Mino Province (now the southern part of Gifu Prefecture) as vanguard and general commander.

Shigaraki ware

In the later half of the Heian period, Sue ware production came to an abrupt decline, with production now centralizing in the Owari, Mino, Bizen, and Omi provinces.


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Nōhime

In 1556, Saitō Dōsan, Nō's father, was killed in a coup in Mino Province.