Dewa Province

is an old province of Japan in the area of Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Kōdansha. (1993). "Akitajō" in Japan: an Illustrated Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 29. It was sometimes called .

History
In 708, Dewa-no kuni was separated from Echigo. 

In 712,  Dewa and Mutsu Province were reorganizedTitsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du japon, p. 64.  

Shiba Kaneyori received the Dewa Province as a fief from Ashikaga Takauji in 1335.Terry, Thomas Philip. (1914).  Terry's Japanese Empire, p. 324.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  The maps of Japan and Dewa Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780.

Shrines and Temples
Ōmonoimi jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Dewa.  
"Nationwide List of Ichinomiya," p. 2 ; retrieved 2012-1-17.

Related pages
 Provinces of Japan
 Prefectures of Japan
 List of regions of Japan
 List of islands of Japan

References

Other websites

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Yamagata Prefecture
Category:Akita Prefecture
Category:700s establishments
Category:700s establishments in Japan
Category:1860s disestablishments in Japan