Mineyama Domain

Mineyama Domain (峯山藩 Mineyama han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo Period. It was associated with Tango Province in modern-day Kyoto Prefecture.<ref name"explorer">"Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-8.</ref>

In the han system, Mineyama 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.

List of daimyo

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

  1. Takamichi (1603-1665)[3]
  2. Takatomo
  3. Takaaki
  4. Takayuki
  5. Takanaga
  6. Takahisa
  7. Takamasa
  8. Takamasu
  9. Takatsune
  10. Takakage
  11. Takatomi
  12. Takanobu

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. 3.0 3.1 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Kyōgoku" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 28; retrieved 2013-4-8.

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