Shimōsa Province (下総国, Shimōsa no Kuni) was a province of Japan in the area modern Chiba Prefecture, and Ibaraki Prefecture. It lies to the north of the Bōsō Peninsula (房総半島), whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Sōshū (総州) or Hokusō (北総).
Shimōsa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. It was bordered by Kazusa Province to the south, Musashi and Kōzuke Provinces to the west, and Hitachi and Shimotsuke Provinces to the north. Under the Engishiki classification system, Shimōsa was ranked as a "great country" (大国) and a far country (遠国).
Shimōsa was originally part of a larger territory known as Fusa Province (総国, occasionally 捄国, Fusa-no-kuni), which was divided into “upper” and “lower” portions (i.e. Kazusa and Shimōsa) during the reign of Emperor Kōtoku (645-654). It was well-known to the Imperial Court in Nara period Japan for its fertile lands, and is mentioned in Nara period records as having supplied hemp to the Court. Shimōsa was divided into 11 (later 12) counties. The exact location of the capital of Shimōsa is not precisely known, but is believed to have been somewhere within the borders of the modern city of Ichikawa, Chiba, near Kōnodai Station where the ruins of the Kokubun-ji have been located. However, the Ichinomiya of Shimōsa Province is the Katori Jingu in what is now the city of Katori, Chiba on the opposite coast of the province.
You felt something alone
You keep to your own
We'll never know will we dear?
Steps you took from the start
To be where you are
But I don't know where you go
And like a fool I'm looking 'round
For an answer with my head in my hands
So I have to
Close my eyes
To all but my own world because
The more I find
The more I realize I am
Just a rebel and a fool
You had fallen down
Your face in the ground
And you were all alone
On top of a hill
But we love you still
Oh you're so far from where you've come
And like a fool I'm looking 'round
For an answer with my head in my hands
So I have to
Close my eyes
To all but my own world because
The more I find
The more I realize I am
Just a rebel and a fool
Just a rebel and a fool
A-looking for something good
All right
Ooh yeah yeah yeah
Like a fool I look around for an answer
With my head in my hands
And so I have to
Calm my soul
I close my eyes
To all but my own world because
The more I find
I close my eyes (oh no)
To realize