Oki Province
Oki ( Japanese 隠 岐 国 , Oki no kuni ) or Onshū or Inshū (both 隠 州 ) was one of the historical provinces of Japan . It consisted of the Oki Islands in the Sea of Japan off the coast of the provinces of Izumo and Hoki .
The Oki Islands consist of four large and 180 small islands. The capital of the province ( kokufu ) was in what is now Okinoshima . However, only a few relics have been found apart from the provincial temple that has survived to this day .
The emperors Go-Toba and Go-Daigo were exiled here.
From the Kamakura period , Oki was mostly ruled by the Shugo of Izumo Province . During the Muromachi period it was ruled in turn by the Sasaki , Yamana and Kyōgoku families . In the Sengoku period , the Amako clan held the province. After their fall, the Tokugawa shogunate declared the province to be part of the imperial immediate area, but had it administered by the daimyo of the neighboring mainland fiefdom Matsue , whose Echizen Matsudaira were related to the Tokugawa. At that time, rice production in the province was 5,000 koku a year.
Today the former province as Oki County is part of Shimane Prefecture .
Coordinates: 36 ° 9 ' N , 133 ° 9' E