Yamashiro Province

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yamashiro Province was a province of Japan, located in Kinai. It overlaps the southern part of modern Kyoto Prefecture on Honsh . Aliases include J sh , the rare Sansh and Y sh . It is classified as an upper province in the Engishiki. Yamashiro Province included Kyoto itself, as in 794 AD Yamashiro became the seat of the imperial court, and, during the Muromachi Period, was the seat of the Ashikaga Shogunate as well. The capital remained in Yamashiro until its de facto move to Tokyo in the 1870s. The provincial temples included those where the resident chief priest was a man, and those where it was a woman in S raku District. Kuni no Miya's Daigokuden was made a temple in 746. It was destroyed by fire in 882, and the rebuilding afterwards would decline. In the Kamakura Period, it came to be a branch temple of By d -in. The location is in modern Kizugawa city, coinciding with Kamo. In 1925, a large number of old tiles were excavated nearthe provincial temple, and it is thought that these once belonged to the convent.