was a Japanese
domain of the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characte ...
. It was associated with
Chikugo Province
is the name of a former province of Japan in the area that is today the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyūshū. It was sometimes called or , with Chikuzen Province. Chikugo was bordered by Hizen, Chikuzen, Bungo, and Higo Provin ...
in modern-day
Fukuoka Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...
on the island of
Kyushu.
In the
han system
( ja, 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the Estate (land), estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji (era), Meiji period (1868–1912).Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan En ...
, Miike was a
political
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and
economic
An economy is an area of the production, distribution and trade, as well as consumption of goods and services. In general, it is defined as a social domain that emphasize the practices, discourses, and material expressions associated with the ...
abstraction based on periodic
cadastral
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Often it is represented graphically in a cad ...
surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''
kokudaka'', not land area.
[Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987)]
''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18
This was different from the
feudalism
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of the West.
List of ''daimyōs''
The hereditary ''
daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and nominal ...
s'' were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Tachibana clan, 1621–1806; 1868–1871 (''
tozama''; 10,000 ''
koku'')
#Tanetsugu
#Tanenaga
#Taneakira
#Tsuranaga
#Nagahiro
#Tanechika
#Taneyoshi (transfer to
Shimotedo Domain, succeeded by
Tachibana Taneharu)
#
Taneyuki (returned from Shimotedo)
See also
*
List of Han
*
Abolition of the han system
References
External links
"Miike" at Edo 300
Domains of Japan
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