Wakasa Domain

Wakasa Domain (若桜藩 Wakasa-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Inaba Province in modern-day Tottori Prefecture.[1]

In the han system, Wakasa 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.

List of daimyo

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

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 -- the Han system affected cartography
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Inaba 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.


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