Izumi Province

Not to be confused with Izumo Province.

For the Japanese Go player at Nihon Ki-in, see Izumi Kobayashi.

Izumi Province (和泉国, Izumi no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Osaka Prefecture on the island of Honshū.^[1]

Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Izumi Province highlighted.

History

Izumi Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō.^[2]

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. Maps of Japan and Izumi Province were reformed in the 1870s.^[3]

Shrines and Temples

Ōtori Shrine

Ōtori Shrine was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Izumi.^[4]

Related pages

• Provinces of Japan
• Prefectures of Japan
• List of regions of Japan
• List of islands of Japan

References

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780.
2. Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean (1884). Annales de l'Extrême Orient et de l'Afrique, Vol. 6, p. 172; excerpt, Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, Noto, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and Shinano
3. Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.
4. "Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 Archived 2013-05-17 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2011-10-18.

Other websites

Media related to Izumi Province at Wikimedia Commons

• Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903