Musashi Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Tokyo Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture and of Kanagawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū. It was sometimes called . 
The province had borders with Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.
The ancient capital city of the province was near Fuchu. By the Sengoku period, the main city was Edo.
History.
In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō road was the main route between the Imperial capital at Kyoto and the main city of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The road passed through Musashi.
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Musashi Province were reformed in the 1870s.
The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship "Musashi" was named after the province.
The height of Tokyo Sky Tree is . The figures 6 (mu), 3 (sa), 4 (shi) stand for "Musashi", which is an old name for the area where the Tokyo Sky Tree stands.
Shrines and Temples.
"Hikawa jinja" was the chief Shinto shrine ("ichinomiya") of the province; 
 and there are many branch shrines.