The 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 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

Iwami Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the western part of Shimane Prefecture. It was sometimes called . Iwami bordered Aki, Bingo, Izumo, Nagato, and Suō provinces. In the Heian period (794–1192) the capital was at moder ...

in modern-day Shimane Prefecture."Iwami Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-4-23. 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 ...

, Hamada was a

political Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that stud ...

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 A cadastre or cadaster is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> 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. This was different from the

feudalism Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structur ...

of the West.

History

The domain came to an end with its conquest by forces of the Chōshū Domain and its subsequent absorption of Hamada into Chōshū territory.

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. * Yoshida clan, 1619–1648 ('' tozama''; 54,000 '' koku'') #

Shigeharu Shigeharu (written: , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese politician *, Japanese water polo player *, Japanese journalist *, Japanese jazz musician *, Japanese torpedo bomber pilot officer ...

# Shigetsune * Matsudaira (Matsui) clan, 1649–1759 (''fudai''; 50,000 ''koku'') Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)
"Matsui (Matsudaira)" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 33
retrieved 2013-4-23. #Yasuteru #Yasuhiro #Yasukazu #Yasutoshi #Yasuyoshi *

Honda clan The is a Japanese family that claims descent from the medieval court noble Fujiwara no Kanemichi. The family settled in Mikawa and served the Matsudaira clan as retainers. Later, when the main Matsudaira family became the Tokugawa clan, the Ho ...

, 1759–1769 (''fudai''; 50,000 ''koku'') #Tadahiro #Tadamitsu #Tadatoshi * Matsudaira (Matsui) clan, 1769–1836 (''fudai''; 70,000 ''koku'') #Yasuyoshi #Yasusada # Yasutō #Yasutaka * Matsudaira (Ochi) clan, 1836–1866 ('' Shinpan''; 61,000 ''koku'')Papinot, (2003)
"Matsudaira (Ochi)" at p. 32
retrieved 2013-4-23. #Nariatsu #Takeoki #Takeshige #Takeakira

References

External links

"Hamada" at Edo 300
Domains of Japan Honda clan Matsudaira clan Matsui-Matsudaira clan {{japan-hist-stub

History

List of ''daimyōs''

See also

References

External links