Toyama Domain

The Toyama Domain (富山藩 Toyama-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Etchū Province in modern-day Toyama Prefecture.[1]

In the han system, Toyama 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

The domain was controlled by a cadet branch of the Maeda clan.[4]

List of daimyo

The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain. The domain was founded by Maeda Toshitsugu, the grandson of Maeda Toshiie.

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ "Etchū Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-8.
  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. ↑ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Maeda" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 28; retrieved 2013-7-8.

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