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 * ...

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 character ...

. 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 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 Yamagu ...

."Iwami Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
retrieved 2013-4-23. In the

han system ( ja, 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912). Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Han"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 283. or (daimyo domain ...

, 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 studi ...

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 th ...

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 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 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 structu ...

of the West.

History

The domain came to an end with its conquest by forces of the

Chōshū Domain The , also known as the , was a domain (''han'') of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1600 to 1871.Deal, William E. (2005) ''Handbook to Life in Medieval and Early Modern Japan,'' p. 81 The Chōshū Domain was based ...

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 nominall ...

s'' were head of the clan and head of the domain. * Yoshida clan, 1619–1648 ('' tozama''; 54,000 ''

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 ...

'') #

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, 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 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 M ...

''; 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

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