Mutsu Province
Mutsu Province was an province of Japan in what is now Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.
Mutsu Province is also known as Ōshū or Michinoku; the Eastern Old Japanese name varied between Mutu and Miti.
The termis often used to refer to
The combined area of Mutsu and the neighbouring Dewa Province is the Tōhoku region, which was also known as Ōu via on'yomi reading used for Mutsu and Dewa.
History
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 regional capital of the Kinai government was Tagajō in present-day Miyagi Prefecture.- 709, an uprising against governmental authority took place in Mutsu and in nearby Echigo Province. Troops were dispatched to subdue the revolt.
- 712, Mutsu was separated from Dewa Province. Empress Genmei's Daijō-kan made cadastral changes in the provincial map of the Nara period, as in the following year when Mimasaka Province was split from Bizen Province, Hyūga Province was sundered from Ōsumi Province, and Tanba Province was severed from Tango Province.
- 718, Shineha, Uda and Watari districts of the Mutsu Province, Kikuta, Iwaki districts of the Hitachi Province are incorporated into Iwaki Province.
- 801, Mutsu was conquered by Sakanoue no Tamuramaro.
- 869 : A terrible earthquake struck Mutsu. More than 1,000 people lost their lives in the disaster.
Prosperity of Hiraizumi
Sengoku period
During the Sengoku period, clans ruled parts of the province.- The Nanbu clan at Morioka in the north.
- The Date clan at Iwadeyama and Sendai in the south.
- The Sōma clan at Nakamura in the south.
- The Iwaki clan at Iinodaira in the south.
- The Uesugi clan had a castle town at Wakamatsu in the south.
After the Boshin War
Districts
Under Ritsuryō
- Kesen District
- Isawa District
- Esashi District
- Iwai District
- Waga District
- Shiwa District
- Hienuki District
- Iwate District
- Hei District
- *Kitahei District
- *Higashihei District
- *Nishihei District
- *Minamihei District
- Kunohe District
- Katta District
- Igu District
- Watari District
- Shibata District
- Natori District
- Miyagi District
- Kurokawa District
- Kami District
- Shikama District
- Tamatsukuri District
- Shida District
- Kurihara District
- Nagaoka District
- Niita District
- Oda District
- Tōda District
- Oshika District
- Tome District
- Monou District
- Iwase District
- Aizu District
- *Yama District
- *Ōnuma District
- *Kawanuma District
- Asaka District
- *Tamura District
- Adachi District
- Shinobu District
- *Date District
- **Mogami District
- **Murayama District
- **Okitama District
- Nishishirakawa District
- Higashishirakawa District
- Ishikawa District
- Kikuta District
- Iwaki District
- Shineha District
- Namekata District
- Uda District
Meiji Era
- Aomori Prefecture
- *Tsugaru District
- **Higashitsugaru District
- **Kitatsugaru District
- **Minamitsugaru District
- **Nakatsugaru District
- **Nishitsugaru District
- *Kita District
- *Sannohe District
- Iwate Prefecture
- *Ninohe District