Echizen Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukui Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Echizen" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 165.  Along with Etchū and Echigo Provinces, it was sometimes called .

The ancient capital city of the province was at Echizen. 

History
The boundaries of Echizen were formally established during the reigns of Empress Genshō and Empress Kōken.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

Before the boundaries were established, this area including Etchū and Echigo were called Koshi.

In the Edo period, the daimyo of Fukui Domain lived at Fukui.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Echizen Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

Facilities
Echizen Provincial office was established in Nyū (丹生郡, Nyū-gun).

Kehi jingū was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Echizen."Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 . Retrieved 2012-1-17.

Ōmushi jinja was estublished in Suishin emperor 7. It is written in “Engishiki Jinmyoutyou” and the old status of a Shinto shrine is prefectural shrine. 

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Fukui Prefecture