Izumi Province

was an old province of Japan in the area of Osaka Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780. 

History
Izumi 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.  Maps of Japan and Izumi Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

Shrines and Temples
Ōtori Shrine was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Izumi."Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 1 ; retrieved 2011-10-18.

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:Osaka Prefecture