Tagajo

Tagajo is a city located in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. As of one August 2017, the city had an estimated populace of 62,172, and a population density of 3160 men and women per km2. The general place of the metropolis is 19.64 rectangular kilometres. The metropolis became named after Taga Castle, the capital of Mutsu Province from the Nara duration. The region of present-day Tagajo became a part of historical Mutsu Province, and has been settled in view that at least the Jomon length by means of the Emishi humans.

In 729 AD, throughout the Nara length, a big fortified settlement, Taga Castle, become mounted by using the Yamato dynasty as a navy center to establish manage over the region and to protect colonists from western Japan. The fortification have become the executive capital of Mutsu province. The tsunami in 869 precipitated giant flooding of the Sendai simple, destroying the metropolis of Tagajo. Archaeological investigations have diagnosed the remains of eighth and ninth century buildings under the prevailing metropolis, included by way of sediments dated to the center of the 10th century. During the later portion of the Heian length, the location became dominated by way of the Northern Fujiwara.