Sabae Domain

The Sabae Domain (鯖江藩 Sabae-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Echizen Province in modern-day Fukui Prefecture on the island of Honshu.<ref name"explorer">"Echizen Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-9.</ref>

In the han system, Sabae 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

The domain was valued at 50,000 koku.[3]

At Sabae, Bankei-ji was as the family temple for the ruling Manabe clan. Its gate was built in 1849.[4]

List of daimyo

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

Manabe clan, 1720-1868 (50,000 koku) [5]

  1. Manabe Akihito[6]
  2. Manabe Akimichi[6]
Manabe Akikatsu[7]

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. ↑ DiCenzo, John. (1978). Daimyo, domain and retainer band in the seventeenth century: a study of institutional development in Echizen, Tottori and Matsue, p. 201.
  4. ↑ "Sabae's temple and castle towns," retrieved 2013-4-9.
  5. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Manabe" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 29; retrieved 2013-4-9.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Gate of Bankeiji Temple"; retrieved 2013-4-9.
  7. ↑ Meyer, Eva Maria. (1999). Japans Kaiserhof in der Edo-Zeit, p. 146.

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