However, compared with the two other main schools, the Sagi school and the Okura school serving as official Kyogen schools in the Shogun's court by belonging to Yoza (four troupes of Kyogen), the Izumi school before the Meiji period was no more than a local school performing Kyogen in and around Nagoya (base for the head family and the Matasaburo NOMURA family), Kyoto, and Kanazawa (base for the Tokuro MIYAKE family).
しかし、四座に属し幕府御用を勤めていた鷺・大蔵二流に比べれば、明治以前の和泉流は名古屋（宗家、野村又三郎家）・京都・金沢（三宅藤九郎家）を中心として活動する地方流儀に過ぎなかった。