Fukuyama Domain

Fukuyama Domain (福山藩, Fukuyama-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Bingo Province and Bitchū Province in modern-day Hiroshima Prefecture.[1]

Fukuyama Domain
福山藩
Domain of Japan
1619–1698
1700–1871
CapitalFukuyama Castle
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1619
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofHiroshima Prefecture
Fukuyama Castle's tower

In the han system, Fukuyama was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

List of daimyōs

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.

  1. Katsunari
  2. Katsutoshi
  3. Katsusada
  4. Katsutane
  5. Katsumine
  1. Tadamasa
  • Abe clan, 1710–1871 (fudai; 100,000 → 110,000 koku)[6]
  1. Masakuni
  2. Masayoshi
  3. Masasuke
  4. Masatomo
  5. Masakiyo
  6. Masayasu
  7. Masahiro
  8. Masanori
  9. Masakata
  10. Masatake

See also

References
Map of Japan, 1789 – the Han system affected cartography
  1. "Bingo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-28.
  2. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Mizuno" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 35–36 [PDF 39-40 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-28.
  5. Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Okudaira)" at Nobiliare du Japon, pp. 31–32 [PDF 36-37 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-28.
  6. Papinot, (2003). "Abe" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 1 [PDF 5 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-28.
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