Mitsuse [village] - Mitsuse

Japanese: 三瀬[村] - みつせ

A village in Kanzaki County, northern Saga Prefecture. It can also be read as Mitsuze. Population 1,738 (1995). The northern part of the town is lined with the ridges of the Sefuri Mountains, and it borders Fukuoka Prefecture. Surrounded by mountains, it forms a basin-like topography, and three rivers, the Hatsuse River, the Kase River, and the Takase River, flow through it, and empty into the Hokuzan Reservoir, which straddles Fuji Town in Saga County in the southwest. During the Sengoku period, the castle of the Kumashiro clan, who established their power in the mountainous area of northern Hizen and competed with the Ryuzoji clan for supremacy, was located in Shiyuku, and at the castle ruins there is a stone shrine dedicated to the victory of the Kumashiro clan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

佐賀県北部，神埼郡の村。〈みつぜ〉とも読む。人口1738(1995)。北部は脊振山地の尾根が連なり，福岡県と接する。周囲を山々に囲まれて盆地状の地形をなし，その中を初瀬川，嘉瀬川，高瀬川の3河川が流れ，南西部，佐賀郡富士町にまたがる北山（ほくざん）貯水池に注ぐ。戦国期，肥前北部の山地一帯に勢力を扶植し，竜造寺氏と覇を競った神代（くましろ）氏の居城が宿（しゆく）にあり，城跡には神代勝利をまつった石祠がある。

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