From Ancient Establishment to Pre-modern Alignment (7C - 19C)
Many kofuns had been built in the area of the future Natori district since the 5th century. Especially Raijinyama Kofun was the largest in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. The district was founded in the 7th century. Kōriyama Site had been the capital of Mutsu province since the end of the 7th century until 724. Natori Dan had been long maintained as one of two, six or seven battalions of the province. Heijō-kyō excavation team discovered a wood tag attaching kombu tribute in 729 from "Natori district of Mutsu province" to the palace. And although date and year are unknown, a wordNotori was written on a cup excavated at the Kōriyama Site. The first appearance in reliable literature is in Shoku Nihongi when Kimikobe Okina, a person of Natori District, was permitted to change his family name in 769. Northern border with Miyagi District changed several times. Originally Natori River and its branch Hirose River were the border of their east side. Sendai Domain fixed the district borders in the end of the 16th century or the beginning of the 17th century. Then the boundary around Sendai are changed to Tatsunokuchi River, where is a small branch of the Hirose. This arrangement gave the Sendai Castle to the Miyagi district. Natori district was divided to 61 villages. The Nagamachi office administrated 31 villages of Northern Natori and the Masuda office did 30 villages of Southern Natori.
The village of Masuda from Masuda, Takō, Tekurada and 下余田.
The village of Mogasaki from Nagamachi and Kōriyama.
The village of Rokugō from Iida, Imaizumi, Okino, Tanetsugi, Nippe, Futagi, Ido-hama and Fujizuka-hama.
The village of Higashi-taga from Yuriage, Ushino,Ō magari, Kotsukahara, Takayanagi.
The village of Shimo-masuda from Shimo-masuda and Sugigafukuro.
The village of Tatekoshi from Uematsu, Iinozaka, Horiuchi and Hongō.
The village of Tamaura from Shimonogō, Oshiwake, Hayamata and Terashima.
The village of Sengan from Kita-hase, Minami-hase, Ogawa, Shiga, Nagaoka and Miiroyoshi.
The village of Medeshima from Kitame, Shiote, Kasashima and Azukishima.
The village of Takadate from Yoshida, Kawakami and Kumanodō.
The village of Nakada from Maeda, Shirōmaru, Fukurohara and Yanagiu.
The village of Nishi-taga from Tomizawa, Ōnoda, Kagitori, Tomita and Yamada.
The village of Oide from Moniwa and Tsubonuma.
The village of Akiu from Nagafukuro, Sakaino, Baba, Yumoto and Nikkawa.
Merging History to Dissolve (1886 - 1988)
Japanese district exclude city status municipality. So the Natori district had gradually diminished with incorporation or promotion of its municipalities to cities. Finally the original area had been divided to three cities of Sendai, Natori and Iwanuma by 1988.
