Matsushiro Domain

Part of the Matsushiro domain's Edo estate, relocated to Kamakura and used as a hall at Ryuko-ji Temple

The Matsushiro Domain (松代藩 Matsushiro-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture.[1]

In the han system, Matsushiro was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History

For most of its history, the domain was controlled by the Sanada clan.

List of Daimyo

The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain.

  1. Mori Tadamasa[4]
  1. Tadateru
  1. Tadamasa[5]
  1. Tadakatsu
  1. Nobuyuki[7]
  2. Nobumasa
  3. Yukimichi
  4. Nobuhiro
  5. Nobuyasu
  6. Yukihiro
  7. Yukitaka
  8. Yukitsura
  9. Yukinori
  10. Yukitami

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Shinano Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-6-24.
  2. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  3. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Minagawa" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 36; retrieved 2013-6-24.
  5. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Echizen-ke)" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 30; retrieved 2013-6-24.
  6. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Sakai" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 50; retrieved 2013-6-24.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Papinot, (2003). "Sanada)" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 52; retrieved 2013-6-24.

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