Mibu Domain

Mibu Domain (壬生藩 Mibu han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo Period. It was associated with Shimotsuke Province in modern-day Tochigi Prefecture.

In the han system, Mibu was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[2] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History

During the Boshin War, it was important in the Battle of Utsunomiya.

List of daimyo

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

  1. Yoshiakira

Abe clan, 1634-1639 (25,000 koku)[4]

  1. Tadaaki

Miura clan, 1639-1691 (25,000 koku)[5]

  1. Masatsugu
  2. Yasutsugu
  3. Akihiro

Matsudaira (Nagasawa-Ōkochi) clan, 1692-1695 (fudai; 32,000->42,000 koku)[6]

  1. Terusada
  1. Akihide
  2. Yoshinori

Torii clan, 1712-1868 (30,000 koku)[8]

  1. Tadateru
  2. Tadaakira
  3. Tadaoki
  4. Tadateru
  5. Tadaakira
  6. Tadahiro
  7. Tadatomi
  8. Tadafumi

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  2. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  3. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Hineo" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 9; retrieved 2013-3-31.
  4. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Abe" at p. 1; retrieved 2013-3-31.
  5. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Miura" at pp. 64-65; retrieved 2013-3-31.
  6. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Nagasawa) at p. 31; Ōkochi" at 46; retrieved 2013-3-31.
  7. ↑ Papinot, (2003). "Katō" at p. 20; retrieved 2013-3-31.
  8. ↑ Appert, Georges. (1888). "Shimazu" in Ancien Japon, pp. 79; Papinot, (2003). "Torii" at pp. 64-65; retrieved 2013-3-31.

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