What is Harima Province?
[[File:Provinces of Japan-Harima.svg|thumb|right|Map of Japanese provinces ([[1868]]) with Harima Province highlighted]] {{nihongo|'''Harima Province'''|播磨国|Harima no kuni}}, also known as {{nihongo|'''Banshu'''|播州|}},<ref>{{cite book| title = Terry's Japanese Empire| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9ipbUA13CHoC&pg=PA768| year = 1914| publisher = Houghton Mifflin| isbn = | page = 768 }}</ref> was an [[List of Provinces of Japan|old province]] of [[Japan]] in area of [[Hyōgo Prefecture]] on the island of [[Honshū]].<ref>{{cite book| last = Nussbaum | first = Louis-Frédéric| title = Japan Encyclopedia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA290| year = 2002| publisher = Harvard University Press| isbn = 978-0-674-01753-5| page = 290 }}</ref> The province had [[border]]s with the provinces of [[Tajima Province|Tajima]], [[Tamba Province|Tamba]], [[Settsu Province|Settsu]], [[Bizen Province|Bizen]], and [[Mimasaka Province|Mimasaka]]. The provincial [[Capital (city)|capital city]] was [[Himeji, Hyōgo|Himeji]] on the Ishikawa River.<ref>{{cite book| title = Terry's Japanese Empire| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9ipbUA13CHoC&pg=PA633| year = 1914| publisher = Houghton Mifflin| isbn = | page = 633 }}</ref> ==History== [[File:45 - Harima Province, Maiko Beach, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces, MFAB 21.9533.jpg|thumb|right|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 [[reform]]ed in the 1870s.<ref>{{cite book| last = Nussbaum | first = Louis-Frédéric| title = Japan Encyclopedia| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA780| year = 2002| publisher = Harvard University Press| isbn = 978-0-674-01753-5| page = 780 }}</ref> ==Temples and Shrines== ''[[Iwa jinja]]'' was the chief [[Shinto shrine]] (''[[ichinomiya]]'') of Harima. <ref>[http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/images/uploads/EOS070