Bizen Province was a province of Japan in the area that is eastern Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of western Japan. Bizen bordered Bitchū, Mimasaka, and Harima Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Bishū (備州). In terms of the Gokishichidō system, Bizen was one of the provinces of the San'yō circuit. Under the Engishiki classification system, Bizen was ranked as one of the 35 "superior countries" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the "near countries" (近国) in terms of distance from the capital. The provincial capital was located in what is now the city of Okayama.
Hiroshige ukiyo-e "Bizen" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会)
Kibitsuhiko Jinja, the ichinomiya of the province
Ikeda Akimasa, last daimyō of Okayama
Okayama Castle before 1945
Okayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2. Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the north, Hyōgo Prefecture to the east, and Hiroshima Prefecture to the west.
A street in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture at night
Okayama City
Takahashi
Niimi