Miyagi Prefectur
(
宮城?
,
Miyagi-ken
)
is a
prefectur
o
Japan
locatit in the
T?hoku Region
on
Honshu
island. The caipital is
Sendai
.
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
Wad?
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.
[1]
In
Wad?
5 (712), the land o Mutsu Province wis admeenistratively separatit frae the
Dewa Province
.
Empress Gemmei
's
Daij?-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
;
Hy?ga Province
wis sundered frae
Osumi Province
; an
Tamba Province
wis severed frae
Tango Province
.
[1]
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
T?hoku region
.
In the
Meiji period
, fower new provinces wur creatit frae pairts o Mutsu:
Rikuch?
,
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.
[1]
Miyagi Prefecture is locatit in the central pairt o
T?hoku
, facin the
Paceefic Ocean
, an contains T?hoku'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.
Thirteen ceeties are locatit in Miyagi Prefecture:
These are the touns an veelages in each
destrict
:
‡ Scheduled tae be dissolved follaein 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
[2]
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.
The sports teams leetit belaw are based in Miyagi Prefecture.
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: