Miyagi Prefectur

is a prefectur o Japan locatit in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The caipital is Sendai.

 History 
Miyagi Prefecture wis umwhile pairt o the province o Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northren Honshu, wis ane o the last provinces tae be formed as land wis taken fre the indigenous Ainu an became the lairgest as it expandit northward. The auncient caipital wis in modren Miyagi Prefecture.

In the third month o seicont year o the Wadō era (709), there wis an uprisin against govrenmental authority in Mutsu Province an in nearbi Echigo Province.  Troops wur promptly dispatched tae subdue the revolt.Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 64.

In Wadō 5 (712), the land o Mutsu Province wis admeenistratively separatit frae the Dewa Province.  Empress Gemmei's Daijō-kan continued tae organize ither cadastral chynges in the provincial map o the Nara period, as in the follaein year when Mimasaka Province wis dividit frae Bizen Province; Hyūga Province wis sundered frae Osumi Province; an  Tamba Province wis severed frae Tango Province. 

Durin the Sengoku period various clans ruled different pairts o the province. The Uesugi clan haed a castle toun at Wakamatsu in the sooth, the Nambu clan at Morioka in the north, an Date Masamune, a close ally o the Tokugawa, established Sendai, which is nou the lairgest toun o the Tōhoku region.

In the Meiji period, fower new provinces wur creatit frae pairts o Mutsu: Rikuchū, Rikuzen, Iwaki, an Iwashiro.

The aurie that is nou Aomori Prefectur continued tae be pairt o Mutsu till the Abolition o the han seestem an the naition-wide conversion tae the prefectural structur o modren Japan.

Date Masamune built a castle at Sendai as his seat tae rule Mutsu. In 1871, Sendai Prefecture wis formed.  It wis renamed Miyagi prefecture the follaein year.

On 11 Mairch 2011, an 8.9 yirdquauk an a subsequent major tsunami hit Miyagi Prefecture, causin major damage tae the aurie.

 Geography 
Miyagi Prefecture is locatit in the central pairt o Tōhoku, facin the Paceefic Ocean, an contains Tōhoku's lairgest ceety, Sendai. There are heich muntains on the wast an alang the northeast coast, but the central plain aroond Sendai is fairly lairge.

Matsushima is kent as ane o the three maist scenic views o Japan, wi a bay full o 260 sma islands covered in pine groves.

Oshika Peninsula projects frae the northren coastline o the prefecture.

 Ceeties 
Thirteen ceeties are locatit in Miyagi Prefecture:
Higashimatsushima
Ishinomaki
Iwanuma
Kakuda
Kesennuma
Kurihara
NatoriŌsaki
Sendai (caipital)
Shiogama
Shiroishi
Tagajō
Tome
Tomiya

 Touns an veelages 

These are the touns an veelages in each destrict:
Igu Destrict
Marumori
Kami Destrict
Kami
Shikama
Katta Destrict
Shichikashuku
Zaō
Kurokawa Destrict
Ōhira
Ōsato
TaiwaMiyagi Destrict
Matsushima
Rifu
Shichigahama
Motoyoshi Destrict
Minamisanriku
Oshika Destrict
Onagawa
Shibata Destrict
Kawasaki
Murata
Ōgawara
ShibataTōda Destrict
Misato
Wakuya
Watari Destrict
Watari
Yamamoto

 Mergers 

 Future mergers 
Baith touns athin Watari Destrict are plannin tae merge an create a new ceety unner the name o Watari. Watari Destrict will dissolve if the ceety is creatit

 Economy 
Although Miyagi haes a guid deal o fishin an agricultur, producin a great deal o rice an livestock, it is dominatit bi the manufacturin industries aroond Sendai, particularly electronics, appliances, an fuid processin.

 Sports 
The sports teams leetit belaw are based in Miyagi Prefecture.

Fitbaa
Vegalta Sendai   (Yurtec Stadium, Sendai)
Sony Sendai F.C.  (Tagajō)
Basebaw
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles  (Miyagi Baseball Stadium, Sendai)
Basketbaw
Sendai 89ERS  (Sendai Gymnasium, Sendai)

 Visitor attractions 
Sendai wis the castle toun o the daimyo Date Masamune. The remains o Sendai Castle staund on a hill abuin the ceety.

Miyagi Prefecture boasts ane o Japan's three greatest sichts. Matsushima, the pine-clad islands, dot the waters aff the coast o the prefecture.

The follaein are an aa notit as attractions:

 Aoba Castle
 Ichibanchō
 Akiu Hot Spring
 Iwai Point
 Kinkasan Islet
 Matsushima Bay

 Naruko Hot Spring
 Rikuchu Coast
 Okama Crater Lake
 Zao Botanical Garden
 Zao Hot Spring

 References 

 Freemit airtins 

Official Miyagi Prefecture homepage  
 Official Miyagi Prefecture homepage  last accessed on March 25, 2007
 Official information of each merger in Miyagi Prefecture  last accessed on March 25, 2007


Category:Tōhoku region
Category:Prefecturs o Japan
Category:1870s establishments