Shima Province

This article is about the old province of Japan. For information about other places in Japan with the same name, see Shima (disambiguation).

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Shima Province highlighted

Shima (志摩国, Shima-no kuni) or Shishū (志州) was a province of Japan which consisted of a peninsula in the southeastern part of modern Mie Prefecture. Part of the Tōkaidō, Shima bordered Ise Province, and was the smallest of the provinces.

Shima was a prosperous fishing region, and the Nara Period governors of Shima were responsible for providing annual gifts of fish to the emperor. The chief town of Shima was Toba, although small Shima was often ruled by the daimyo of larger Ise during the Sengoku Period.

Ohama Kagetaka was a pirate operating in the Ise Bay area of Shima Province during the 16th century.

References

• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128