Suwa Domain

Suwa Domain (諏訪藩 Suwa-han), also called Takashima Domain (高島藩 Takashima-han),^[1] was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Shinano Province in modern-day Nagano Prefecture.

In the han system, Suwa 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

Takashima Castle

The center of the domain was at Takashima Castle.^[4]

List of daimyo

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

• Hineno clan, 1590-1601 (tozama; 30,000 koku)^[5]

1. Hineno Takayoshi (日根野 高吉)^[5]
2. Hineno Yoshiaki (日根野 吉明)

• Suwa clan, 1601-1871 (fudai; 30,000 koku)^[6]

1. Suwa Yoritada^[6]
2. Suwa Yorimizu (諏訪 頼水)
3. Suwa Tadatsune (諏訪 忠恒)
4. Suwa Tadaharu (諏訪 忠晴)
5. Suwa Tadatora (諏訪 忠虎)
6. Suwa Tadatoki (諏訪 忠林)
7. Suwa Tada'atsu (諏訪 忠厚)
8. Suwa Tadataka (諏訪 忠粛)
9. Suwa Tadamichi (諏訪 忠恕)
10. Suwa Tadamasa (諏訪 忠誠)
11. Suwa Tada'aya (諏訪 忠礼)

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

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

1. "Shinano Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-2.
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. "Takashima Castle" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-7-2.
5. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Hineno" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 9; retrieved 2013-7-2.
6. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Suwa" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 57; retrieved 2013-7-2.