Izumo Province

Izumo (出雲国; Izumo no kuni) was an old province of Japan which today consists of the eastern part of Shimane prefecture in the Chugoku region.Origin of izumo word is meaning of goddess Izanami.She is the mother of Japan and buried on Mt. Hiba, at the border of the old provinces of Izumo and Hoki, near modern-day Yasugi of Shimane Prefecture.

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Old province - Japan - Shimane prefecture - Chugoku region - Izanami - Izumo - Hoki - Yasugi

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It was one of the regions of ancient Japan where major political powers arose. A powerful clan of Izumo (Idumo is an obsolete Romanization) constituted an independent polity, but during the fourth century BC it was absorbed due to the expansion of the state of Yamato, within which it assumed the role of a sacerdotal domain. Even today the Izumo Shrine constitutes (as does the Ise Shrine) one of the more important sacred places of Shinto: it is dedicated to kami, especially to Ōkuninushi (Ō-kuni-nushi-no-mikoto), mythical progenitor of Susanoo and all the clans of Izumo.

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Izumo Shrine - Ise Shrine - Shinto - Kami - Susanoo

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