Kokura Domain
Kokura Domain (小倉藩, Kokura-han), also known as "Kawara-han" (香春藩) or then "Toyotsu-han" (豊津藩), was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Buzen Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.
| Toyotsu Domain (1870–1871)豊津藩 Kawara Domain (1867–1870)香春藩 Kokura Domain (1600–1867)小倉藩 | |
|---|---|
| Domain of Japan | |
| 1600–1871 | |
| Capital | Kokura Castle (1600–1867) Kawara jin'ya (1867–70) Toyotsu jin'ya (1870–71) |
| History | |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period Meiji period |
• Established | 1600 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | Fukuoka Prefecture |
Kokura Castle
In the han system, Kokura 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 daimyōs
The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Hosokawa clan, 1600–1632 (tozama; 399,000 koku)
Ogasawara clan, 1632–1871 (fudai; 150,000 koku)
See also
References
- Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
External links
- (in Japanese) Kokura on "Edo 300 HTML" Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine (9 Oct. 2007)
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