A was a type of

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in the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period of Japanese history. ''Jin'ya'' served as the seat of the administration for a small

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, a province, or additional parcels of land. ''Jin'ya'' housed the residence of the head of administration and the associated

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storehouse for the ''

kokudaka refers to a system for determining land value for taxation purposes under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan, and expressing this value in terms of ''koku'' of rice. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Koku"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 54 ...

'' system. ''Jin'ya'' were equivalent in function to Japanese castles (城, ''shiro''), typically used as the administrative seats of larger domains. Generally, domains assessed at 30,000 ''

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'' or less had a ''jin'ya'' instead of a castle. Additionally, ''jin'ya'' were found on shogunal lands and those headed by '' hatamoto'', and within larger domains served as district headquarters (''gun daikan-sho'') and in geographical

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s. Some ''jin'ya'' were

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, such as the Komono Jin'ya in

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, Mie Prefecture, which featured a watchtower (''yagura'') mimicking the donjon of a castle. Others ''jin'ya'' had

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s or earthen walls, in some cases left over from an earlier castle on the site. The "three great ''jin'ya''" were at the Iino, Tokuyama and Tsuruga Domains.

Sources

*This article incorporates material from 陣屋 (''Jin'ya'') in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on February 24, 2008.

External links

The Herbert Offen Research Collection of the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum
and th
Phillips Library Catalog
Edo period Government of feudal Japan {{Japan-hist-stub

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