Miyagi Prefecture

Miyagi Prefecture (宮城県 Miyagi-ken^?) is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island.^[1] The capital is Sendai.^[2]

Miyagi Prefecture is in the central part of Tōhoku, facing the Pacific Ocean, and contains Tōhoku's largest city, Sendai.

Matsushima is known as one of the three most scenic views of Japan, with a bay full of 260 small islands covered in pine groves.
   
Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu.^[3] Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the largest as it expanded northward. The ancient capital was at Taga-jō in modern Miyagi Prefecture.

The area that is now Aomori Prefecture continued to be part of Mutsu until the abolition of the han system and the nation-wide conversion to the prefectural structure of modern Japan.

Matsushima (松島^?) is a group of islands in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
The Emishi or Ebisu (蝦夷^?) constituted a group of people who lived in northeastern Honshū in the Tōhoku region which was referred to as michi no oku (道の奥^?) in contemporary sources.