Harima Province

Map of the Japanese provinces, Harima highlighted in red

Harima ( Japanese. 播 磨 国 , Harima no kuni ) or Banshū ( 播 州 ) was one of the historical provinces of Japan on the island of Honshū , in the southwest part of today's Hyōgo prefecture .

Harima bordered the provinces of Inaba , Tajima , Tamba , Settsu , Bizen, and Mimasaka . The capital was Himeji .

In the Edo period , the Akō fiefdom , from which the 47 Rōnin came, was part of Harima.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Inoue Kiyoshi : History of Japan . 2nd Edition. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2002, ISBN 3-88059-994-7 , The Provinces from the Heian to the Edo Period, p. 640 (Japanese: Nihon no rekishi . Translated by Manfred Hubricht).

Coordinates: 34 ° 58 '  N , 134 ° 40'  E