Mutsu Province
| Mutsu Province 陸奥国 | |||||||||||||||
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| Province of Japan | |||||||||||||||
| 654–1869 | |||||||||||||||
Map of Japanese provinces (1868) with Mutsu Province highlighted | |||||||||||||||
| Capital | Miyagi District | ||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||
• Established | 654 | ||||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1869 | ||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Fukushima Prefecture Miyagi Prefecture Iwate Prefecture Akita Prefecture Aomori Prefecture | ||||||||||||||
Mutsu Province (陸奥国, Mutsu no Kuni; Japanese pronunciation: [mɯꜜ.tsɯ (no kɯ.ɲi)]) was a 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 (奥州) or Michinoku (陸奥 or 道奥); 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 (奥羽) via on'yomi reading (using Chinese pronunciations of the kanji) used for Mutsu and Dewa.