The , also known as , was a Japanese

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of the

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. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day

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."HIgo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-5-24. In the

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, Kumamoto was a

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and

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abstraction based on periodic

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surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''

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'', not land area. This was different from the

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of the West.

History

The domain was centered at the Kumamoto Castle in

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. Under the Hosokawa, with an income of 540,000 koku, the Kumamoto domain was one of the largest in

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, second only to the

Satsuma Domain The , briefly known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1602 to 1871. The Satsuma Domain was based at Kagoshima Castle in Satsuma Province, the core of the modern city of Kagoshima, ...

, and excluding the lands held by the Tokugawa and Matsudaira clans, the fourth-largest in Japan after the Kaga,

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and

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domains.

List of ''daimyōs''

The hereditary ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

s'' were head of the clan and head of the domain. *

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, 1588–1632 ('' tozama''; 520,000 ''

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'') Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Katō" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 20
retrieved 2013-5-24. # Kiyomasa (1562–1611) # Tadahiro (1597–1653) *

Hosokawa clan The is a Japanese Samurai kin group or clan. Ancestors # Emperor Jimmu # Emperor Suizei # Emperor Annei # Emperor Itoku # Emperor Kōshō # Emperor Kōan # Emperor Kōrei # Emperor Kōgen # Emperor Kaika # Emperor Sujin # Emperor Suinin # Emper ...

, 1632–1871 (''tozama''; 540,000 ''koku'')Papinot, (2003)
"Katō" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 12
retrieved 2013-5-24. # Tadatoshi (1586–1641) # Mitsunao # Tsunatoshi # Nobunori # Munetaka # Shigekata (1718–1785) # Harutoshi # Narishige # Naritatsu # Narimori # Yoshikuni # Morihisa

Genealogy

*Hosokawa Fujitaka (1534–1610) **Tadaoki (1563–1645) *** I. Tadatoshi, 1st ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (cr. 1632) (1586–1641; r. 1632–1641) **** II. Mitsunao, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1619–1650; r. 1641–1650) ***** III. Tsunatoshi, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1641–1712; r. 1650–1712) *****Toshishige (1646–1687) ****** IV. Nobunori, 4th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1676–1732; r. 1712–1732) ******* V. Munetaka, 5th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1716–1747; r. 1732–1747) ******* VI. Shigekata, 6th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1721–1785; r. 1747–1785) ******** VII. Harutoshi, 7th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1758–1787; r. 1785–1787) ***Tatsutaka (1615–1645) ****Yukitaka, 1st ''daimyō'' of Udo (1637–1690) *****Aritaka, 2nd ''daimyō'' of Udo (1676–1733) ******Okinari, 3rd ''daimyō'' of Udo (1699–1737) *******Okinori, 5th ''daimyō'' of Udo (1723–1785) ******** VIII. Narishige, 6th ''daimyō'' of Udo, 8th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1755–1835; r. 1787–1810) *********Tatsuyuki, 7th ''daimyō'' of Udo (1784-1818) ********** X. Narimori, 8th ''daimyō'' of Udo, 10th Lord of Kumamoto (1804–1860; r. 1826–1860) *********** XI.Yoshikuni, 11th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto, 25th Hosokawa family head (1835–1876; r. 1860–1869. Governor of Kumamoto 1869–1871). ***********Morihisa, 26th Hosokawa family head, 1st Marquess (1839–1893; family head 1876–1893; 1st Marquess Hosokawa: 1884–1893) ************Morishige, 27th Hosokawa family head, 2nd Marquess (1868–1914; family head and 2nd Marquess 1893–1914) ************Morikei, 1st Baron Hosokawa (cr. 1896) (1882–1898) ************Moritatsu, 28th Hosokawa family head, 3rd Marquess, 2nd Baron (1883–1970; 2nd Baron Hosokawa 1898, 14th Hosokawa family head 1914–1970, 3rd Marquess 1914–1947) *************Morisada, 29th Hosokawa family head (1912–2005; family head 1970–2005) ************** Morihiro, 30th Hosokawa family head (b. 1938; family head 2005–). Prime Minister of Japan 1993–1994 *************** Morimitsu (b. 1972) ********* IX. Naritatsu, 9th ''daimyō'' of Kumamoto (1788–1826; r. 1810–1826) Genealogy
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History

List of ''daimyōs''

Genealogy

See also

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