Izumi Province

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The characters 泉州 are also used for the name of the Chinese city of Quanzhou.
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Izumi Province highlighted.

Izumi Province (和泉国, Izumi no kuni) was a province of Japan.[1] It is also referred to as Senshū (泉州). It lay in Kinai, and its area today composes the south-western part of Osaka Prefecture (south of the Yamato River; not including the city of Osaka itself). The in Sakai was the border with Settsu Province, until the beginning of the Meiji period, when the boundary was changed to be at the Yamato River. Izumi was classified as a lower province in the Engishiki.

The northern part was called Senboku (泉北, "Izumi North"), and the southern part Sennan (泉南, "Izumi South"). Izumi included the southern portion of the large seaport of Sakai, and was usually held by whomever ruled Osaka Castle and Settsu Province.

Name[]

The name "Izumi" means "fountain" or "spring" (泉), but is written with two characters, the character for "peace" (和) being prepended due to an imperial edict in 713. This character does not play into the reading.

Because the provincial capital was in modern Fuchū town, Izumi city, Osaka Prefecture, the city adopted the name of the province as its name.

Development[]

According to the Shoku Nihongi, the and districts were separated from Kawachi Province on 23 April 716; moreover, on 8 May that same year, the was also separated from Kawachi, and the three districts constructed Izumi-gen (和泉監). The imperial villa of Chinu Palace (茅渟宮, Chinu no Miya, also known as Izumi Palace) was in Izumi, and it seems that this has something to do with the unusual classification of gen (監): Yoshino-gen was the only other province with this designation. Afterwards, on 15 September 740, it was abolished and merged back into Kawachi province. On 30 May 757, it was re-established with a normal province designation kuni (国).

According to the , on 21 April 825, the four Settsu Province districts of , , , and were incorporated into Izumi Province, but the residents were opposed to it, so they were restored to Settsu on 8 August the same year.

In the Edo period, Kishiwada Domain (Koide tozama, Matsudaira/Matsui fudai, Okabe fudai; 30000–60000 koku) and Hakata Domain (Watanabe fudai; 13500 koku) were established.

Sometime in 1870 or 1871 (the beginning of the Meiji era), the boundary with Settsu Province was changed to the Yamato River (it was formerly the roads of and ).

Capital[]

The provincial capital was in the , which is now around Fuchū, Izumi. The ruins of its buildings are being excavated.

The shugo's residence was right by the capital, but it was transferred to Sakai in the Muromachi period.

Shrines and temples[]

The only grand shrine was Ōtori Shrine in (Ōtorikita, Sakai), ranking among the ; it also became Izumi Province's primary shrine. The secondary shrine was (Toyonaka, Izumiōtsu); the tertiary shrine was (Ōji, Izumi), the quaternary (Tsugawa, Kishiwada), and the quinary (Hineno, Izumisano). However, Hine Shrine was listed as the quaternary shrine in a 1501 document. The sōja was the Five Shrine Sōja complex at in the capital, where the kami of the above five shrines were also enshrined.

The provincial temple was (Kokubu, Izumi). It was only for monks, there was no temple available for nuns.

Shugo[]

Kamakura shogunate[]

Muromachi shogunate[]

  • 1336–1337 –
  • 1337–1347 – Hosokawa Akiuji
  • 1347–1349 – Kō no Moroyasu
  • 1349–1351 – Hatakeyama Kunikiyo
  • 1351–1352 – Hosokawa Akiuji
  • 1352–1359 –
  • 1359–1360 – Hatakeyama Kunikiyo
  • 1360–1361 – Hosokawa Nariuji
  • 1369–1378 – Kusunoki Masanori
  • 1378–1391 –
  • 1392–1399 – Ōuchi Yoshihiro
  • 1400–1403 –
  • 1407–1408 – The
  • 1408–1411 –
  • 1408–1448 –
  • 1411–1438 –
  • 1438–1450 –
  • 1448–1483 –
  • 1450–1480 –
  • 1480–1500 –
  • 1487–1495 –
  • 1500–1508 – /
  • 1513–1523 – The Hosokawa clan
  • 1523–1531 –
  • 1523–? –
  • 1536–1554 – Hosokawa Mototsune

Kami of Izumi[]

Historical districts[]

Meiji era reorganization[]

  • Part of the area of of Settsu Province (from the South Yamato River) was added into Ōtori District.
  • Senboku District (泉北郡) – merger of Ōtori and Izumi Districts; creating a district that covered the former northern part of Izumi Province on 1 April 1896
  • Sennan District (泉南郡) – merger of Minami and Hine Districts; creating a district that covered the former southern part of Izumi Province on 1 April 1896

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books.

References[]

  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128

External links[]

Media related to Izumi Province at Wikimedia Commons

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