Rikuzen Province
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in the area of Miyagi
Miyagi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai.- History :Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the...
and some parts of Iwate
Iwate Prefecture
is the second largest prefecture of Japan after Hokkaido. It is located in the Tōhoku region of Honshū island and contains the island's easternmost point. The capital is Morioka. Iwate has the lowest population density of any prefecture outside Hokkaido...
prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Rikuchū
Rikuchu Province
was an old province in the area of Iwate and Akita prefectures. It was sometimes called , with Rikuzen and Mutsu Provinces.Rikuchu covered most of modern-day Iwate Prefecture, with the exceptions of Kesen District, Rikuzentakata City, Ōfunato City, and Kamaishi City, and also including Kazuno City...
and Mutsu
Mutsu Province (1868)
, also called was an old province of Japan in the area of Iwate and Aomori prefecture.It was also known as or . In the Meiji era, the province was cut down to cover only present-day Aomori and given the new name Rikuō Province, which retained the original kanji.（岩手大学教育学部）-History:On December 7,...
Provinces.
History
- December 7, 1868 (January 19, 1869 according to the Gregorian calendarGregorian calendarThe Gregorian calendar, also known as the Western calendar, or Christian calendar, is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, by a decree signed on 24 February 1582, a papal bull known by its opening words Inter...
) Rikuzen is separated from Mutsu ProvinceMutsu Provincewas an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori prefecture and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture... - 1872 A census estimates the population at 534,609
Districts
- Kesen (気仙郡)
- Motoyoshi (本吉郡)
- Tome (登米郡)
- Kurihara (栗原郡)
- Tamatsukuri (玉造郡)
- Oshika (牡鹿郡)
- Monou (桃生郡)
- Tōda (遠田郡)
- Shida (志田郡)
- Kami (加美郡)
- Kurokawa (黒川郡)
- Miyagi (宮城郡)
- Natori (名取郡)
- Shibata (柴田郡)