List of Han
This is an incomplete list of the major Han of the Tokugawa period. Han were feudal domains that formed the effective basis of administration in Tokugawa-era Japan. The han are given along with their approximate borders compared with the modern prefecture system.
The han system was abolished by the Meiji government in 1871.
- Hirosaki – Located in modern-day Aomori Prefecture
- Kuroishi – Branch of Hirosaki han, based in modern-day Kuroishi, Aomori
- Hachinohe – Branch of Morioka han
- Kunohe – Branch of Morioka Domain, corresponded to modern Kunohe District, Iwate
- Morioka – Located in modern-day Akita, Aomori, and Iwate Prefectures, originally consisted of 10 districts – in modern Iwate: Iwate, Hienuki, Waga, Shiwa, Kunohe, Ninohe, and Hei (now split into Kamihei and Shimohei); in modern Aomori: Sannohe and Kita (now divided into Kamikita and Shimokita districts); in modern Akita: Kazuno
- Kōri – Based in modern-day Kōri town, Date District, Fukushima
- Aizu – Based in modern-day Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture; controlled by the Hoshina (Matsudaira) family.
- Ichinoseki – Branch of Sendai han, based in modern-day Ichinoseki, Iwate; held by the Tamura clan, a branch family of the Date clan
- Iwakidaira – held by the Torii family briefly from 1606–1622.
- Miharu – Held by the Kato, Matsushita, and Akita families.
- Moriyama – Held by the Mito-Matsudaira clan, a branch of the Tokugawa
- Sendai – Based in modern-day Sendai, Miyagi; held by the Date clan
- Shimotedo – Based in modern-day Tsukidate town, Date District, Fukushima
- Sōmanakamura – Located in modern-day Fukushima Prefecture, capital was modern-day Sōma, Fukushima; was briefly Nakamura Prefecture after the abolition of the han system
- Yunagaya
- Izumi
- Kurohane
- Ōtawara (not to be confused with Odawara)
- Kitsuregawa
- Utsunomiya
- Mibu
- Fukiage
- Sano
- Ashikaga
- Miyagawa
- Katada
- Ōmizo
- Hikone
- Hikoneshinden
- Yamakami
- Mikami
- Nishōji
- Minakuchi
- Zeze
- Tanba-Kameyama
- Sonobe
- Yamaga
- Ayabe
- Fukuchiyama
- Sasayama
- Kaibara
- Yonago
- Kurayoshi
- Kurosaka
- Yabase
- Tsuyama
- Tsuyamashinden
- Mimasaka-Katsuyama
- Ryūkyū – Controlled as a quasi-independent nation for much of the Edo period by Satsuma; briefly became a han from 1872–1879.[1]
Notes
References
- Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. 10-ISBN 0-300-01655-7/13-ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588
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