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Izu (伊豆国; -no kuni) was a province of Japan including the Izu Peninsula that is today part of Shizuoka prefecture and the Izu Islands that are now part of Tokyo. Before the modern prefecture system was established the land of Japan was divided into tens of kuni (国 countries) usually known in The is a Peninsula to the west of Tokyo on the Japanese island of Honshū. WikipediaWikiProject Japanese prefectures for guidelines--> is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū Island The are a group of Volcanic Islands stretching south and east from the Izu Peninsula of Honshū, Japan. officially, is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshū. Izu bordered on Sagami and Suruga Provinces. was an old province of Japan. It occupied most of the area that is today Kanagawa prefecture, but present-day Yokohama and Kawasaki, now part of Kanagawa was an old province in the area that is today the eastern part of Shizuoka prefecture. Another name was Zushū. Prior to 680 A. Events By Place Europe The Bulgars subjugate the country of current-day Bulgaria. D. , it was part of Suruga province. From that year until the Edo period, Izu included three districts: Tagata, Kamo and Naka. The, also referred to as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代 Tokugawa-jidai) is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1868 Tagata (田方郡 -gun is a district located in Shizuoka, Japan. Kamo (賀茂郡 -gun is a district located in Shizuoka, Japan. During the Edo period, Kimisawa became the fourth district of Izu.

The First Shrine (Ichinomiya) of Izu was the Mishima Shrine. is a city located in Shizuoka, Japan. The city was founded on April 29, 1941. The Ninomiya Hachimangu and the Asama Shrine, which were also in Mishima, were the second and third. is a type of Shinto Shrine in Japan. There are approximately 1300 Asama Shrines in Japan and they worship Konohanasakuya-hime as a goddess In addition, Mishima was the location of the Provincial Temple, or Kokubunji.

During the Sengoku period, Izu was typically dominated by whoever ruled the Kantō provinces of Sagami and Musashi, including the Hōjō clan and later the Tokugawa shoguns themselves. See the Late Hōjō clan for the Hōjō clan of the Sengoku Period. The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the, and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the Shoguns of In that sense, it was more like a fiefdom with a lord, as was much of Japan until Tokugawa times.

Izu was a major setting for the novel (and miniseries) Shogun

The article incorporates text from OpenHistory. Shōgun is an American Television Miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. Shōgun is a 1975 novel by James Clavell. It is the first Novel (chronologically speaking in the author's Asian Saga. OpenHistory is a Website dedicated to providing an open free Encyclopedia and text of Japanese history created and maintained by Chris Spackman


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