Hirose Domain Explained

Native Name:広瀬藩
Conventional Long Name:Hirose Domain
Common Name:Hirose Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:Domain of Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Capital:Hirose jin'ya
Today:Shimane Prefecture
Year Start:1666
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period

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.

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.japanese-castle-explorer.com/province.html?name=Izumo "Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
  2. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. [Edmond Papinot|Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]