was a Japanese

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of the Edo period. It is associated with Hizen Province in modern-day Saga Prefecture."Hizen Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-5-28. In the han system, Hasunoike 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.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987)
''Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century,'' p. 18
This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History

Hasunoike Domain was originally a sub-domain of the Saga Domain, founded for Nabeshima Naozumi, the fifth son of the first '' daimyō'' of Saga Domain, Nabeshima Katsushige. Naozumi was assigned holdings of 52,000 ''

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''. The headquarters of the domain were within the ''san-no-maru'' (third bailey) of Saga Castle; later a separate structure, a '' jin'ya'' in the Hasunoike district of

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was erected. Hasunoike initially had ''

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'' and was treated as if an independent domain. However, in 1730, it petitioned the Tokugawa shogunate to be permitted to stop making the expensive trips to

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, and was consequently was allowed to attend as part of the retinue of Saga Domain. During the unsettled Bakumatsu period, the 9th (and last) ''daimyō'' of Hasunoike,

Nabeshima Naotada Viscount was the 9th and final ''daimyō'' of Hasunoike Domain in Hizen Province, Kyūshū, Japan (modern-day Saga Prefecture). Before the Meiji Restoration, his courtesy titles were title of '' Kai no Kami'' and junior 5th, lower grade court ...

was he was ordered the Tokugawa shogunate to take responsibility of the defenses of the Nagasaki area against possible incursions by foreign ships, and was forced to raise and train troops, and build coastal defense fortifications in 1854. This greatly strained the already precarious finances of the domain, which could only be resolved by placing the domain into great debt. In 1864, Naotada dispatched troops to Kyoto to assist the Tokugawa forces in keeping public order. However, during the

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of the Meiji Restoration, he switched sides to the Satchō Alliance and dispatched Hasunoike's forces under the command of his younger brother, against the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei and Tokugawa remnants at Akita in support of

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With the

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in 1871, Hasunoike Domain briefly became "Hasunoike Prefecture" before it was merged into the new Saga Prefecture. In 1884, Naotada and his heirs were granted the title of viscount (''shishaku'') under the '' kazoku'' peerage system.

List of ''daimyōs''

The hereditary '' daimyōs'' were head of the clan and head of the domain. * Nabeshima clan, 1635–1868 ('' tozama''; 52,000 ''

'') Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Nabeshima" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', pp. 38–39
retrieved 2013-5-30. :

Geography

The han territory extended over Kanzaki, Kishima and

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districts and portions of

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districts: an area roughly equivalent to modern-day area of Hasunoike district of

in Saga Prefecture,

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References

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"Kashima" at Edo 300
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History

List of ''daimyōs''

Geography

See also

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