Harima Province

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Harima Province highlighted

Harima Province (播磨国, Harima no kuni), also known as Banshu (播州),^[1] was an old province of Japan in area of Hyōgo Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[2]

The province had borders with the provinces of Tajima, Tamba, Settsu, Bizen, and Mimasaka.

The provincial capital city was Himeji on the Ishikawa River.^[3]

History

View of Harima Province, woodblock print by Hiroshige, 1853-1856

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Harima Province were reformed in the 1870s.^[4]

Temples and Shrines

Iwa jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Harima. ^[5]

Related pages

• Provinces of Japan
• Prefectures of Japan
• List of regions of Japan
• List of islands of Japan

References

1. Terry's Japanese Empire. Houghton Mifflin. 1914. p. 768.
2. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 290. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
3. Terry's Japanese Empire. Houghton Mifflin. 1914. p. 633.
4. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. p. 780. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
5. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 3 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Other websites

Media related to Harima Province at Wikimedia Commons

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903