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was an old province of Japan, made up of the present-day prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori, and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture. It was also known as Oshu, although that term usually referred to the combined provinces of Mutsu and Dewa.
u, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Ainu and became the largest as it expanded northward.
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was an old province of Japan, made up of the present-day prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori, and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture. It was also known as Oshu, although that term usually referred to the combined provinces of Mutsu and Dewa.
Historical record
Mutsu, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Ainu and became the largest as it expanded northward. The ancient capital was in modern Miyagi Prefecture.
In the 3rd month of the 2nd year of the Wado era (709), there was an uprising against governmental authority in Mutsu and in nearby Echigo Province. Troops were dispatched to subdue the revolt.
In the 5th year of the Wado era (712), Mutsu was separated from Dewa Province. Empress Gemmei's Daijo-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; Hyuga Province was sundered from Osumi Province; and Tamba Province was severed from Tango Province.
During the Sengoku period, various clans ruled different parts of the province. The Uesugi clan had a castle town at Wakamatsu in the south, the Nambu clan at Morioka in the north, and Date Masamune, a close ally of the Tokugawa, established Sendai, which is now the largest city in the Tohoku region.
In the Meiji period, four provinces were created from Mutsu: Rikuchu, Rikuzen, Iwaki, and Iwashiro.
The area that is now Aomori Prefecture continued to be part of Mutsu until the Abolition of the han system and the nation-wide conversion to the prefectural structure of modern Japan.
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Districts during the Meiji Era
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