Hirose Domain

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

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

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

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.