Kuji

Kuji is a metropolis placed in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of one March 2017, the city had an estimated population of 36,104 in 15,618 families, and a populace density of 57.9 men and women in line with km². The general vicinity of the town is 623.50 square kilometres. The region of present-day Kuji changed into part of historic Mutsu Province, and has been settled considering the fact that at the least the Jomon period. Amber from the vicinity has been determined at archaeological websites courting from the Nara period on the website online of Heijo-kyo and Fujiwara-kyo.

The location got here under the manipulate of the relevant authorities handiest after 1070 AD within the mid-Heian period. From the Kamakura length, the area got here below the control of the Nanbu clan, and for the duration of the Edo period, was a part of Hachinohe Domain beneath the Tokugawa shogunate. The area changed into mentioned for its manufacturing of ironsand, vital in the manufacturing of Japanese swords. These deposits have been exploited commercially from the Meiji period, however had been exhausted by using the 1960s.