Uzen Province

is an old province of Japan in the area of Yamagata Prefecture on the island of Honshū.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Uzen" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 1019.  Along with Ugo Province, it was sometimes called .Murdoch, James. (1903).  A History of Japan, Vol. 3. p. 794.  The history of the province started in 1868 and ended in 1872.

History
During the Edo period and early Meiji period, the Uesugi clan were daimyo in the area.Papinot, Edmund. (2003). Nobiliare du Japon -- Uesugi, pp. 67 [PDF 71 of 80]; Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; retrieved 2012-11-8. 

Copper coins were minted in the province in 1861-1863 (Bunkyu 1-3).Van de Polder, Léon. (1891).  "Abridged History of the Copper Coins of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, Vol. 18-19, p. 490.

In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures.  Maps of Japan and Unzen Province were reformed in the 1870s.Nussbaum, "Provinces and prefectures" at p. 780.

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

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Other websites 

  Murdoch's map of provinces, 1903

Category:Former provinces of Japan
Category:Yamagata Prefecture