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| | Atelier Aterui: Image Index: Mizusawa Ward, Oshu City, Iwate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | This area, recorded as Hitakami-no-kuni or Isawa in some authentic histories like Nihon-shoki (The Chronicle of Japan), was known as a land of very rich field and water along the Hitakami River (now the Kitakami River) surrounding the Ou Mountain Chains in the west and the Hitakami Mountains in the east. |
 | | During the early seventeenth century, Juan Goto (?1577-?1638), born as Matagoro (as called in his childhood), the third son of Hidenobu Iwabuchi, the lord of Fujisawa-jo Castle, Higashi-Iwai County, Iwate, was the Christian lord of Fukuwara (literally "God-blessed field") in the western part of Mizusawa. |
 | | It was founded by Rev. Shuchu (@’a®) in 1607 (12th year of Keicho) in Hataori-yama, Ichinoseki, Iwate in the time of the first Mizusawa-Date lord Munetoshi. |
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