The 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 character ...

. It was associated with Iwami Province 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 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

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and

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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. ...

'', not land area. This was different from the

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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 nominall ...

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

''; 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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