Higo (肥後国; Higo no kuni) was an
old province of
Japan in the area that is today
Kumamoto prefecture on the island of
Kyūshū. Higo bordered on
Chikugo,
Bungo,
Hyūga,
Osumi, and
Satsuma.The
castle town of Higo was usually at
Kumamoto city. During the
Muromachi period, Higo was held by the
Kikuchi clan, but they were dispossessed during the
Sengoku period, and the province was occupied by neighboring lords, including the
Shimazu of
Satsuma, until
Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded
Kyūshū and gave Higo to his retainers, first
Sasa Narimasa and later
Kato Kiyomasa. The Kato were soon stripped of their lands, and the region was given to the
Hosokawa clan.
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