Bitchū Province

Bitchu bordered Hōki, Mimasaka, Bizen, and Bingo Provinces.

By the Sengoku Period, other clans fought over Bitchu, and Oda Nobunaga and Mōri Terumoto were fighting in the province when Oda died, leading to a division of the province.

After 1600, the province was divided among a variety of han (fiefs), and included a number of castles.

By the time the provinces were reorganized into prefectures, the dominant city was the port, Kurashiki.

Kibitsu jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Bitchū.