Noto Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Ishikawa Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Noto" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 728. It was sometimes called . 

The province had borders with Etchū and Kaga provinces.

The ancient capital city of the province was Nanao.

History
Noto Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō.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 

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

Shrines and Temples
Keta jinja was the chief Shinto shrines (ichinomiya) of Noto.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 . Retrieved 2012-1-17.

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:Ishikawa Prefecture