Crossword-Solution: MUTSU 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

THE GOBLIN OF ADACHIGAHARA Long, long ago there was a large plain called Adachigahara, in the province of Mutsu in Japan.

The American proposal included the scrapping of the _Mutsu_, the pride of the Japanese navy, which had been launched but not quite completed.

The Japanese refused, however, to give up the _Mutsu_, and they were finally permitted to retain it, but in order to preserve the 5-5-3 ratio, it was necessary to increase the tonnage allowance of the United States and Great Britain.

During the next four or five weeks, while Great Britain, the United States, and Japan were discussing the case of the _Mutsu_ and the question of fortifications in the Pacific, the French delegates were cherishing their resentment at being treated as the representatives of a second-class power.

Thus in the provinces of Omi, of Suruga, of Mutsu, of Iwashiro, of Iwaki, of Echigo, of Etchu, of Echizen, of Bizen, of Bitchu, of Bingo, of Harima, of Tamba, and elsewhere, there are found in later ages noble families all tracing their descent to one or another of the Shido shoguns despatched on the task of pacifying the country in the days of the Emperor Sujin.