Hirose Domain
Hirose Domain (広瀬藩, Hirose-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Izumo Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture.[1]
| Hirose Domain 広瀬藩 | |
|---|---|
| Domain of Japan | |
| 1666–1871 | |
| Capital | Hirose jin'ya |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1666 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | Shimane Prefecture |
In the han system, Hirose 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.
- Matsudaira clan, 1666–1868 (fudai; 30,000 koku)[4]
See also
- List of Han
- Abolition of the han system
References
- "Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-27.
- Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
- Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Echizen-ke" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 30 [PDF 34 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-27.
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