Aki Province

or Geishū (芸州) was an old province in the area of Hiroshima Prefecture on the island of Honshū.
History.
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Aki Province were reformed in the 1870s.
Shrines and Temples.
"Itsukushima jinja" was the chief Shinto shrine ("ichinomiya") of Aki.