Mutsu Province (陸奥国, Mutsu no kuni?) 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 Ōshū (奥州?) or Michinoku (道奥?). The term Ōu (奥羽?) is often used to refer to combined area of Mutsu and the neighboring province Dewa, the another name of the Tōhoku region.
Famous quotes containing the word province:
“Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)