Mori Domain (Izumo)

Mori Domain (母里藩 Mori-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Izumo Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture.^[1]

In the han system, Mori 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 ruled for the entirety of its history by a branch of the Matsudaira clan of Fukui.

List of daimyo

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

• Matsudaira clan, 1677-1871 (shinpan; 10,000 koku)^[4]

1. Takamasa^[5]
2. Naotaka
3. Naokazu
4. Naomichi
5. Naoyuki
6. Naokiyo
7. Naokata
8. Naooki
9. Naoyori
10. Naotoshi

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography

1. "Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-11.
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). "Matsudaira (Echizen-ke" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 30; retrieved 2013-4-27.
5. Borton, Hugh. "Peasant uprisings in Japan of the Tokugawa period," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (1938), p. 46 n31.

External links

• "Mori" at Edo 300 (Japanese)