Iwashiro Province
Iwashiro ( Japanese 岩 代 国 , Iwashiro no kuni ) was a province of Japan during the early Meiji period .
It extended over the western part of what is now Fukushima Prefecture . Together with the east bordering Iwaki Province , it formed the central part of Fukushima Prefecture. More precisely, today's Date and Adachi counties in the north belonged to Iwashiro, Higashishirakawa and Nishishirakawa in the south to Iwaki (with the exception of the western part of the village Taishin (today: Shirakawa ) which belonged to Iwashiro) with the Abukuma in the middle as a border river.
The 1872 census ( Jinshin Koseki ) counted 427,933 inhabitants for Iwashiro.
history
In 718, the provinces of Iwase and Iwaki were separated from Michinoku (Mutsu) , but they were reintegrated a few years later. The territory of Iwase Province was roughly the same as that of the later successor province of Iwashiro, except that it included the Abukuma Basin .
On January 19, 1869 (Meiji 1/12/7), the provinces of Iwashiro, Iwaki , Rikuchū (German "Middle Mutsu") and Rikuzen (German "Front Mutsu") were separated from the Mutsu Province.
The name Iwashiro is derived from the predecessor province of Iwase ( 石 背 国 ), in which it was assumed that the Kanji 背 was not pronounced as usual se , but as in the 7th century in the province of Yamashiro ( 山 背 国 ) shiro .
Fiefdom
The following fiefs ( han ) were in Iwashiro :
- Fukushima ( 福島 藩 ; 1679–1869)
- Nihonmatsu ( 二 本 松 藩 ; 1627–1871)
The following were in the Iwashiro area prior to its establishment:
- Yanagawa ( 梁川藩 ; 1683–1821)
- Koori ( 桑 折 藩 ; 1700–1747)
- Shimotedo ( 下手 渡 藩 ; 1806–1868)
- Shimomura ( 下 村 藩 ; 1787–1823)
- Aizu ( 会 津 藩 ; 1590–1868)
- Ōkubo ( 大 久保 藩 ) / Iwase ( 岩 瀬 藩 ) (1682–1693)
- Ishikawa ( 石川藩 ; 1662–1681)
Counties
The following counties ( gun ) were in Iwashiro :
- Aizu-gun ( 会 津 郡 )
- Adachi-gun ( 安達 郡 )
- Asaka-gun ( 安 積 郡 )
- Iwase-gun ( 岩 瀬 郡 )
- Ōnuma-gun ( 大沼 郡 )
- Kawanuma-gun ( 河 沼 郡 )
- Shinobu-gun ( 信 夫 郡 )
- Date-gun ( 伊達 郡 )
- Yama-gun ( 耶 麻 郡 )