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Musashi Province
was a province of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo Metropolis, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture.〔Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric (2005). "''Musashi''" in .〕 It was sometimes called . The province encompassed Kawasaki and Yokohama. Musashi bordered on Kai, Kōzuke, Sagami, Shimōsa, and Shimotsuke Provinces.
Musashi was the largest province in the Kantō region.
==Name==
The name ''Musashi'', recorded in early records as 牟射志 ''muzasi'', has been conjectured to be of Ainu origin.〔Alexander Vovin (2009) ("Strange words in the Man'yoshū and the Fudoki and the distribution of the Ainu language in the Japanese islands in prehistory" )〕 It has no apparent meaning in Japanese, but ''mun-sar-i'' or ''mun-sar-ihi'' (weed-marsh-)〔There are dialectical words of Ainu origin in the Tohoku region where ''si'' corresponds to Hokkaido Ainu ''hi''〕 is a hypothetical Ainu form that would mean "marsh/wetland of (''i.e.'' belonging to) weeds/inedible or otherwise useless plants," and Musashi sits in the middle of the Kanto plain.〔Vovin, Alexander (2008). "Man'yōshū to Fudoki ni Mirareru Fushigina Kotoba to Jōdai Nihon Retto ni Okeru Ainugo no Bunpu." ''Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyū Sentā.''〕
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