Matsura-gun

Matsura-gun is a historical county in Japan. It was located in Hizen Province.

The Matsura region, Sayohime's alluded place of origin, spans the current-day Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures. However, the specific mountaintop that had been dubbed Hirefurinomine (領巾麾嶺; "Scarf-Waving Peak"), as attested in the Man'yōshū, has been identified as the summit of Mount Kagami, on the eastern edge of the city of Karatsu, Saga.

Some versions of the legend of Matsura Sayohime(var. Lady Otohi or Otohi-hime) are classed as the Miwasan-kei setsuwa (三輪山型説話; "stories of the Mt. Miwa pattern") But there is no enduring sign of snake worship in the original vicinity of the legend in the Matsura region, where a local shrine houses the supposed petrified remains, or bōfuseki (望夫石; "rock that contemplates the husband"), of Lady Matsura.

Kagami Shrine was the main shrine and Soja shrine of Matsura-gun