Tsuwano Domain

The remains of Tsuwano Castle

The Tsuwano Domain (津和野藩 Tsuwano-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Iwami Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture.^[1]

In the han system, Tsuwano 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 Meiji-era author Mori Ōgai was the son of a Tsuwano retainer.

List of daimyo

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

• Sakazaki clan, 1601-1617 (tozama; 30,000->43,468 koku)^[1]

1. Sakazaki Naomori

• Kamei clan, 1617-1868 (tozama; 43,000 koku)^[4]

1. Kamei Masanori^[4]
2. Kamei Koremasa
3. Kamei Korechika
4. Kamei Koremitsu
5. Kamei Korenobu
6. Kamei Koretane
7. Kamei Norisada
8. Kamei Norikata
9. Kamei Korenao
10. Kamei Korekata
11. Kamei Koremi

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

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

1. "Iwami Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-23.
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). "Kamei" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 19 [PDF 23 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-25.

External links

• "Tsuwano" at Edo 300 (Japanese)