classification system, Buzen was ranked as one of the "superior countries" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the "far countries" (遠国) in terms of...

known as Keno or Kenu (毛野). At some unknown point in the 5th century, the area was divided at the Kinugawa River into Kamitsukeno (上毛野) and Shimotsukeno (下毛野)...

Kamitsukeno (上毛野) ("Upper Keno") and Shimotsukeno (下毛野) ("Lower Keno"). Per the Nara period Taihō Code, these provinces became Kamitsukeno-no-kuni (上毛野国) and...

Ba Commandery (巴郡), which is present-day Zhong County, Chongqing. Mao Chu (毛楚) and Yang Chong (楊崇), both from the same Ba Commandery (巴郡) as Wen Li, were...

興移書日南州郡，開示大計，兵臨合浦，告以禍福; 遣都尉唐譜等詣進乘縣，因南中都督護軍霍弋上表自陳。」) Sanguozhi, vol.4 (辛未，詔以呂興為安南將軍，都督交州諸軍事，以南中監軍霍弋遙領交州刺史，得以便宜選用長吏。弋表遣建寧爨谷為交趾太守，率牙門董元、毛炅、孟幹、孟通、爨能、李松、王素等將兵助興。未至，興為其功曹李統所殺。)...

(上毛郡) Districts, Fukuoka (Merged to form Chikujō District) Ito (怡土郡) and Shima (志摩郡) Districts, Fukuoka (Merged to form Itoshima District) Mikasa (御笠郡)...

(初，先主與劉璋會涪時，裕為璋從事，侍坐。其人饒鬚，先主嘲之曰：「昔吾居涿縣，特多毛姓，東西南北皆諸毛也，涿令稱曰『諸毛繞涿居乎』！」) Sanguozhi vol. 42. Zizhi Tongjian vol. 66. (裕即荅曰：「昔有作上黨潞長，遷為涿令。涿令者，去官還家，時人與書，欲署潞則失涿，欲署涿則失潞，乃...

721 to 731 Suwa (諏訪国) Shinano (信濃国) Kōzuke (Jōshū) (上野国 (上州)) – divided from Keno Province (毛野国) during the 4th century Shimotsuke (Yashū) (下野国 (野州)) –...

亦復當興. 所請兵士, 吾給衣粮. 欲奏天皇, 其策一也. 猶於南韓, 置郡令·城主者, 豈欲違背天皇, 遮斷貢調之路. 唯庶, 剋濟多難, 殲撲强敵. 凡厥凶黨, 誰不謀附. 北敵强大, 我國微弱. 若不置南韓, 郡領·城主, 修理防護, 不可以禦此强敵. 亦不可以制新羅. 故猶置之, 攻逼新羅...

Zheng Ang (正昂), the Shu-appointed Administrator of Jianning Commandery (建寧郡; around present-day Qujing, Yunnan), and took Zheng Ang's successor Zhang...