Mutsu Province (1868)
Rikuō Province | |||||||||||||||||
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Province of Japan | |||||||||||||||||
1869–1871 | |||||||||||||||||
Map of Japanese provinces (1869) with Rikuō Province highlighted | |||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||
• Established | 1869 | ||||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1871 | ||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Iwate Prefecture Aomori Prefecture |
Mutsu Province (
It was also known as Ōshū (
History[edit]
On December 7, 1868 (January 19, 1869 in the Gregorian calendar), four additional provinces (Rikuchū, Rikuzen, Iwaki, and Iwashiro) were separated from Mutsu, leaving only a rump corresponding to today's Aomori Prefecture (with Ninohe District of Iwate Prefecture). At the same time, while the characters of the name were unchanged, the official reading was changed to the on'yomi version "Rikuō".[2]
Historical districts[edit]
Mutsu (Rikuō) Province consisted of nine districts:
- Aomori Prefecture
- Tsugaru District (
津軽 郡 )- Higashitsugaru District (
東津軽 郡 ) - Kitatsugaru District (
北津軽 郡 ) - Minamitsugaru District (
南津軽 郡 ) - Nakatsugaru District (
中津軽 郡 ) - Nishitsugaru District (
西津軽 郡 )
- Higashitsugaru District (
- Kita District (
北 郡 )- Kamikita District (
上北 郡 ) - Shimokita District (
下北 郡 )
- Kamikita District (
- Sannohe District (
三戸 郡 )
- Tsugaru District (
- Iwate Prefecture
- Ninohe District (
二戸 郡 )
- Ninohe District (
See also[edit]
- Mutsu Province
- Sanriku
- Tōhoku region
- Tōsandō
- Japanese battleship Mutsu, the World War II Imperial Japanese Navy warship named after the province.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Mutsu" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 676, p. 676, at Google Books.
- ^ a b "
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). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18.(岩手大学 教育 学部 )
References[edit]
- Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
- Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691.
Other websites[edit]
Media related to Mutsu Province (1868) at Wikimedia Commons
- Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903
- "Mutsu Province". SamuraiWiki. Retrieved 2008-01-16.