Shiwa

Shiwa is a metropolis in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2017, the city had an estimated population of 33,314, and a population density of 139.4 humans in step with km2. The total vicinity of the city is 238.98 square kilometres. The location of present-day Shiwa turned into a part of historic Mutsu Province, and has been settled in view that as a minimum the Jomon duration. The vicinity changed into inhabited via the Emishi humans, and got here underneath the control of the Yamato dynasty during the early Heian duration. It is one of the great place.

During the Kamakura period, the area was dominated with the aid of a branch of the Northern Fujiwara, accompanied by means of the Shiba extended family at some point of the Muromachi duration. During the Sengoku period, the place became conquered through the Nambu clan in 1588. During the Edo period, Shiwa prospered as a post station at the Oshu Kaido dual carriageway connecting Edo with the northern provinces, in addition to from its region on the Kitakami River. Initially a part of Morioka Domain underneath the Tokugawa shogunate, from 1684, 4 villages Tsuchidate, Katayose, Inato and Kamihirazawa shaped an exclave of Hachinohe Domain.