Aki Province
Aki ( Japanese 安芸国 , Aki no kuni ) or Geishū ( 芸 州 ) was one of the provinces of Japan in the Chūgoku region of western Honshū . It comprised the western part of what is now Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan .
When Emperor Shōmu ordered the establishment of two official temples for each province (one for male Buddhist priests, one for nuns), two temples were also established in this province. The provincial temple ( kokubunji ) was built in today's Higashihiroshima .
Since the late Heian period (12th century), the province was known for the Itsukushima Shrine . Taira no Kiyomori donated a new building complex and sutras .
Itsukushima ( Miyajima ) had a good seaport and strategic importance.
In the Sengoku period , the city was the seat of the Mōri clan until 1600. In 1555, Mōri Motonari won the battle of Itsukushima against Sue Harutaka and established his power in the western part of Honshū .
Mōri Terumoto , one of the members of the Council of Five Regents that Toyotomi Hideyoshi appointed for his son, sided with Ishida Mitsunari before the Battle of Sekigahara and lost Aki and many other rulers.
After a brief reign of Fukushima Masanori , Asano Nagaakira was appointed daimyo of Hiroshima in 1619 - with an income of 420,000 koku rice . Until the Meiji Restoration , the Asano ruled almost the entire province.
The dominion of the daimyo was renamed Hiroshima Prefecture in 1871 , from which the present-day prefecture emerged after a few amalgamations.
Coordinates: 34 ° 32 ' N , 132 ° 20' E