Mineyama Domain (Tango)

Mineyama Domain (峯山藩, Mineyama han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Tango Province in modern-day Kyoto Prefecture.[1]

Mineyama Domain
峰山藩
Domain of Japan
1622–1871
CapitalMineyama jin'ya
  TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
 Established
1622
 Disestablished
1871
Today part ofKyoto Prefecture

In the han system, Mineyama 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. Takamichi (1603–1665)[4]
  2. Takatomo (高供)
  3. Takaaki
  4. Takayuki
  5. Takanaga
  6. Takahisa
  7. Takamasa
  8. Takamasu
  9. Takatsune
  10. Takakage
  11. Takatomi
  12. Takanobu

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. "Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-8.
  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). "Kyōgoku" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 28; retrieved 2013-4-8.
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