Hitoyoshi Domain
| Hitoyoshi Domain 人吉藩 | |
|---|---|
| Domain of Japan | |
| 1585–1871 | |
| Capital | Hitoyoshi Castle |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1585 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | Kumamoto Prefecture |
Aerial view of Hitoyoshi Castle
The Hitoyoshi Domain (人吉藩, Hitoyoshi-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture.[1]
In the han system, Hitoyoshi 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.
History[]
The Sagara clan was established at Hitoyoshi in the 13th century; and they stayed in the same place until the Meiji Restoration.[4]
List of daimyōs[]
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
- Sagara clan (tozama; 22,000 koku)[4]
- Yorifusa
- Yorihiro
- Yoritaka
- Yoritomi
- Nagaoki
- Nagaari
- Yorimine
- Yorihisa
- Akinaga
- Yorisada
- Tomimochi
- Nagahiro
- Yorinori
- Yoriyuki
- Nagatomi
- Yorimoto
See also[]
- List of Han
- Abolition of the han system
References[]
- ^ "Higo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-5-28.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Hosokawa" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 50; retrieved 2013-5-28.
External links[]
- "Hitoyoshi" at Edo 300 (in Japanese)
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