Map of the former Japanese provinces with Iwase highlighted
is an
old province of Japan which existed for a brief period of time in the
Nara period
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in what is now western
Fukushima Prefecture
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.
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History
Iwase Province was created during the reign of Empress Genshō
was the 44th monarch of Japan, Imperial Household Agency (''Kunaichō'') 元正天皇 (44)/ref> according to the traditional order of succession. Her reign spanned the years 715 through 724.
Genshō was the fifth of eight women to take on th ...
.[Meyners d'Estrey, Guillaume Henry Jean (1884). ; excerpt, '' Genshō crée sept provinces : Idzumi, ]Noto
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, Atoa, Iwaki, Iwase, Suwa et Sado en empiétant sur celles de Kawachi, Echizen, Etchū, Kazusa, Mutsu and Shinano'' The Yōrō Ritsuryo established the Iwase Province in 718 through the division of the Michinoku Province (Mutsu Province
was an old province of Japan in the area of Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate and Aomori Prefectures and the municipalities of Kazuno and Kosaka in Akita Prefecture.
Mutsu Province is also known as or . The term is often used to refer to the comb ...
). It was composed of five districts, named Shirakawa (白河), Iwase (石背), Aizu (会津), Asaka (安積) and Shinobu (信夫).
The area encompassed by the province reverted to Mutsu at some point between 722 and 724. Some scholars have suggested that this may have been motivated by economic considerations.
Historical districts
* Aizu District (会津郡)
*Asaka District
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The district consists of 1 city (Asaka), 4 urban-type settlemen ...
(安積郡)
* Iwase District (岩瀬郡)
* Shinobu District (信夫郡)
*Shirakawa District may refer to:
People
* Shirakawa (surname)
* Emperor Shirakawa, an eleventh-century emperor of Japan
Places
* Shirakawa, Fukushima, a city in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
** Shirakawa Domain, a feudal domain of Edo-period Japan
* Shirakawa ...
(白川郡, East Shirakawa)
See also
* Iwashiro Province
is an old province in the area of Fukushima Prefecture. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Iwashiro''" in . It was sometimes called .
The province occupies the western half of the central part of Fukushima Prefecture; the eastern half is I ...
, ''de facto'' brief reconstitution.
* List of Provinces of Japan
were first-level administrative divisions of Japan from the 600s to 1868.
Provinces were established in Japan in the late 7th century under the Ritsuryō law system that formed the first central government. Each province was divided into and ...
Notes
References
* Kodama. (1958). 図日本文化史大系 (''Zusetsu Nihon bunkashi taikei''). Tokyo: Shōgakkan
OCLC 16308019
Other websites
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718 establishments
Former provinces of Japan
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States and territories established in the 710s
States and territories disestablished in the 8th century
724 disestablishments
8th century in Japan
