| content | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed. (March 2008) |
This article is about an old province of Japan. There is a town in Ibaraki Prefecture and a village in Fukushima Prefecture with the same name, see Iwase, Ibaraki or Iwase, Fukushima. For the Hawaii politician, see Randy Iwase.
Iwase Province (石背国 Iwase no Kuni?) is an old province of Japan lasting for a brief period of time in Nara period in what is now western Fukushima Prefecture
The Yōrō Ritsuryo established the Iwase Province in 718 through the division of the Michinoku Province ([[Mutsu Province). It was composed of five districts of Shirakawa (白河), Iwase (石背), Aizu (会津), Asaka (安積) and Shinobu (信夫). It returned to Michinoku some time between 722 and 724.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
