Dewa Province (出羽国, Dewa no kuni) is an old province of Japan in the area of Yamagata Prefecture and Akita Prefecture on the island of Honshū.[1] It was sometimes called Ushū (羽州).
In 708, Dewa-no kuni was separated from Echigo.
In 712, Dewa and Mutsu Province were reorganized[2]
Shiba Kaneyori received the Dewa Province as a fief from Ashikaga Takauji in 1335.[3]
In the Meiji period, the provinces of Japan were converted into prefectures. The maps of Japan and Dewa Province were reformed in the 1870s.[4]
Ōmonoimi jinja was the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) of Dewa. [5]
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Source: Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Provinces and prefectures" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 780, p. 780, at Google Books; excerpt,
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