was a Japanese
domain
Domain may refer to:
Mathematics
*Domain of a function, the set of input values for which the (total) function is defined
**Domain of definition of a partial function
**Natural domain of a partial function
**Domain of holomorphy of a function
* Do ...
of the
Edo period. It was associated with
Izumo Province
was an old province of Japan which today consists of the eastern part of Shimane Prefecture. It was sometimes called . The province is in the Chūgoku region.
History
During the early Kofun period (3rd century) this region was independent an ...
in modern-day
Shimane Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Shimane Prefecture is the second-least populous prefecture of Japan at 665,205 (February 1, 2021) and has a geographic area of 6,708.26 km2. Shimane Prefecture borders Yamaguc ...
.
["Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com](_blank)
retrieved 2013-4-11.
In the
han system, Mori was a
political and
economic abstraction based on periodic
cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of ''
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 ...
'', not land area. This was different from the
feudalism of the West.
History
The domain was ruled for the entirety of its history by a branch of the
Matsudaira clan of
Fukui
is a Japanese name meaning "fortunate" or sometimes "one who is from the Fukui prefecture". It may refer to:
Places
* Fukui Domain, a part of the Japanese han system during the Edo period
* Fukui Prefecture, a prefecture of Japan located in ...
.
List of ''daimyōs''
The hereditary ''
daimyōs'' were head of the clan and head of the domain.
*
Matsudaira clan, 1677–1871 (''
shinpan
was a class of ''daimyō'' in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan who were certain relatives of the ''Shōgun''.
While all ''shinpan'' were relatives of the ''shōgun'', not all relatives of the shōgun were ''shinpan''; an example of this is the ...
''; 10,000 ''
koku
The is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 or approximately , or about . It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. One ''gō'' is the volume of the "rice cup", the plastic measuring cup that is supplied ...
'')
#
Takamasa[Borton, Hugh]
"Peasant uprisings in Japan of the Tokugawa period", ''Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan'' (1938), p. 46 n31
#Naotaka
#Naokazu
#Naomichi
#Naoyuki
#Naokiyo
#Naokata
#Naooki
#Naoyori
#Naotoshi
See also
*
List of Han
*
Abolition of the han system
The in the Empire of Japan and its replacement by a system of prefectures in 1871 was the culmination of the Meiji Restoration begun in 1868, the starting year of the Meiji period. Under the reform, all daimyos (, ''daimyō'', feudal lords) ...
References
External links
"Mori" at Edo 300
Domains of Japan
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