Takada Domain

Takada domain (高田藩 Takada han), also known as Takata, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period.[1] It was associated with Echigo Province in modern-day Niigata Prefecture.[2]

In the han system, Takada was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[3] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[4] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

History

The fudai Sakakibara clan were installed in this 150,000 koku domain in 1741; and the clan's role continued uninterrupted up through the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The head of the Sakakibara was ennobled with the title of Viscount in the kazoku system of peerage.[5]

List of daimyo

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

Sakakibara clan, 1714-1868 (fudai; 150,000 koku)[5]

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric et al. (2005). "Takada" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 931., p. 931, at Google Books
  2. ↑ "Echigo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-8.
  3. ↑ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  4. ↑ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Sakakibara" at Noblaire du Japon, p. 51.

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