Yanagawa Domain

Yanagawa Domain
柳河藩
Domain of Japan
1600–1871
CapitalYanagawa Castle [ja]
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1600
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofFukuoka Prefecture
Marker showing the location of Yanagawa Castle

Yanagawa Domain (柳河藩, Yanagawa-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Chikugo Province in modern-day Fukuoka Prefecture on the island of Kyushu.

In the Han system, Yanagawa 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.

  1. Yoshimasa
  2. Tadamasa

Tachibana clan, 1620–1871 (tozama; 109,000 koku)

  1. Muneshige
  2. Tadashige
  3. Akitora
  4. Akitaka
  5. Sadayoshi
  6. Sadanori
  7. Akinao
  8. Akihisa
  9. Akikata
  10. Akihiro
  11. Akinobu
  12. Akitomo

See also

References

Map of Japan, 1789 – the Han system affected cartography
  1. ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
  2. ^ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.

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