rikuzen

Updated: January 13, 2026

At that time the term "Mutsu" represented a much wider area than the modern region of the same name: it comprised the five provinces now distinguished as Iwaki, Iwashiro, Rikuzen, Rikuchu, and Mutsu in other words, the whole of the northeastern and northern littoral of the main island.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era