Mutsu Province

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Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Mutsu Province highlighted

Mutsu Province (陸奥国 Mutsu no kuni) was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.

Mutsu Province is also known as Ōshū (奥州) or Michinoku (陸奥 or 道奥). The term Ōu (奥羽) is often used to refer to the combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa which make up the Tōhoku region.

History

Mutsu Province from 7c. to 712
Mutsu Province 718 for several years
Mutsu Province from 1185 to 1868

Invasion by the Kinai government

Mutsu, on northern Honshū, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi and became the largest as it expanded northward. The ancient capital of the Kinai government was Tagajō in present-day Miyagi Prefecture.

Prosperity of Hiraizumi

During the 12th century, Ōshū Fujiwara clan settled at Hiraizumi, it was the second largest city in the 12th century Japan. The legacy of the Ōshū Fujiwara clan remains as the Chūsonji, Mōtsūji in Hiraizumi, the Shiramizu Amidadō in the base of the Iwaki clan.

Sengoku period

During the Sengoku Period, various clans ruled different parts of the province.

After the Boshin War

Rikuō (Mutsu) Province from 1869 onwards
Main article: Mutsu Province (1868)

As the result of the Boshin War, the Mutsu Province was divided by the Meiji government on 19 January 1869 in the Gregorian calendar. By this division, five provinces (Rikuchū, Rikuzen, Iwaki (1868), Iwashiro and Mutsu (1868) are established. the Meiji Mutsu Privince is a rump corresponding to today's Aomori Prefecture.

At the same time, while the characters of the name were unchanged, the official reading was changed to the on'yomi version Rikuō.[3]

Districts

Under Ritsuryō

Districts of Meiji Mutsu Province

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mutsu" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 676, p. 676, at Google Books.
  2. ↑ Titsingh, p. 119., p. 119, at Google Books
  3. ↑ 地名「三陸地方」の起源に関する地理学的ならびに社会学的問題 PDF（岩手大学教育学部）

References

Other websites

Media related to Mutsu Province at Wikimedia Commons

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Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,

"Japan's former provinces were converted into prefectures by the Meiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the 'five provinces of the Kinai' and 'seven circuits'."
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