Daishōji Domain

Daishōji Domain (大聖寺藩 Daishōji-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Kaga Province in modern-day Ishikawa Prefecture.^[1]

In the han system, Daishōji 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 center of the domain was at Daishōji jin'ya in what is today the city of Kaga in Ishikawa Prefecture.

List of daimyo

The hereditary daimyo were head of the clan and head of the domain. Daishōji was ruled by a cadet branch of the Maeda clan.^[4]

• Maeda clan, 1639-1868 (100,000 koku)^[4]

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system

References

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

1. "Kaga Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-9.
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). "Maeda" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 28; retrieved 2013-4-9.

Further reading

• Smith, Thomas C. (1989). Native Sources of Japanese Industrialization, 1750-1920. (Berkeley: University of California Press), p. 161