陸奥むつ

noun

Mutsu Province

Historical province covering present-day Fukushima, Miyagi, Iwate, and Aomori prefectures. The reading みちのく is common in classical and literary references.

• 陸奥むつは、明めい治じ維い新しん後ごに分ぶん割かつされて現げん在ざいの県けんになった。

  Mutsu Province was divided into the present-day prefectures after the Meiji Restoration.

• 松まつ尾お芭ば蕉しょうは「奥おくの細ほそ道みち」でみちのくを旅たびした。

  Matsuo Bashō traveled through Michinoku in 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'.