Hida Province (飛騨国 Hida no kuni) is an old province located in the Tōsandō area of Japan and, today, composes the Hida region in the northern part of modern Gifu Prefecture. The traditional kanji for the name are 飛驒国, with the top radical of the middle kanji being different.
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Hida Province's castle town was Takayama. Hida had extensive forests and was a major source of timber and metals for other provinces. River traffic from Hida down to Mino and Owari Provinces was heavy.
In 1585, Kanamori Nagachika, one of Oda Nobunaga's and later Toyotomi Hideyoshi's generals, was sent to occupy Hida Province and became its lord. He fought on the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara and his heirs held the province through the Edo Period.
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