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Rikuzen Province

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Old province of Japan

Map of the former Japanese provinces with Rikuzen highlighted

Rikuzen Province (陸前国,Rikuzen no Kuni;Japanese pronunciation:[ɾi.kɯꜜ.(d)zeɴ,-(d)zennokɯ.ɲi]^[1]) is anold province ofJapan in the area ofMiyagi Prefecture (excludingIgu,Katta andWatari Districts) and parts ofIwate Prefecture (specificallyKesen District).^[2] It was sometimes calledRikushū (陸州), withRikuchū andMutsu Provinces.

History

January 19, 1869: Rikuzen is separated fromMutsu Province.
1872: A census estimates the population at 534,609.

Historical districts

Rikuzen Province consisted of fourteen districts:

Iwate Prefecture
- Kesen District (気仙郡)
Miyagi Prefecture
- Kami District (加美郡)
- Kurihara District (栗原郡) - dissolved
- Kurokawa District (黒川郡)
- Miyagi District (宮城郡)
- Monou District (桃生郡) - dissolved
- Motoyoshi District (本吉郡)
- Natori District (名取郡) - dissolved
- Oshika District (牡鹿郡)
- Shibata District (柴田郡)
- Shida District (志田郡)- dissolved
- Tamatsukuri District (玉造郡) - dissolved
- Tōda District (遠田郡)
- Tome District (登米郡) - dissolved

See also

Notes

^NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, ed. (24 May 2016).NHK日本語発音アクセント新辞典 (in Japanese). NHK Publishing.
^Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Rikuzen" inJapan Encyclopedia, p. 790, p. 790, atGoogle Books.

References

Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005).Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge:Harvard University Press.ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5;OCLC 58053128

Other websites

Media related toRikuzen Province at Wikimedia Commons

Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

v t e Former provinces of Japan (List)
Kinai	Izumi Kawachi Settsu Yamashiro Yamato Yoshino716–738
Tōkaidō	Awa Hitachi Iga Ise Izu Kai Kazusa Mikawa Musashi Owari Sagami Shima Shimōsa Suruga Tōtōmi
Tōsandō	Dewa-1869 Hida Iwaki718–724 Iwaki1869– Iwase718–724 Iwashiro1869– Kōzuke Mino Ōmi Mutsu–1869 Rikuō (or Mutsu)1869– Rikuchū1869– Rikuzen1869– Shimotsuke Shinano Suwa721–731 Ugo1869– Uzen1869–
Hokurikudō	Echigo Echizen Etchū Kaga Noto Sado Wakasa
San'indō	Hōki Inaba Izumo Iwami Oki Tajima Tanba Tango
San'yōdō	Aki Bingo Bitchū Bizen Harima Mimasaka Nagato Suō
Nankaidō	Awa Awaji Iyo Kii Sanuki Tosa
Saikaidō	Bungo Buzen Chikugo Chikuzen Higo Hizen Hyūga Iki Ōsumi Satsuma Tane702–824 Tsushima
Hokkaidō 1869–	Chishima Hidaka Iburi Ishikari Kitami Kushiro Nemuro Oshima Shiribeshi Teshio Tokachi
Pre-Taihō Code provinces	Chichibu Fusa Hi Keno Kibi Koshi Kumaso Toyo Tsukushi
Source:Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" inJapan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, atGoogle Books; excerpt, "Japan's formerprovinces were converted intoprefectures by theMeiji government ... [and] grouped, according to geographic position, into the'five provinces of the Kinai' and'seven circuits'."

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