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Hirose Domain

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Hirose Domain
広瀬藩
Domain of Japan
1666–1871
CapitalHirose jin'ya
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1666
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofShimane Prefecture

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]

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

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

See also

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References

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Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ^ "Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-27.
  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). "Matsudaira (Echizen-ke" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 30 [PDF 34 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-27.