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A Japanese/Cyrillic 1789 map of Japan showing provincial borders and the castle towns of han and major shogunate castles/cities Map of Japan, 1855, with provinces. Map of Japan, 1871, with provinces. The list of han or domains in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) changed from time to time during the Edo period. Han were feudal domains that ...
Ōtomo clan – descended from Tei (称), a descendant of Emperor Xian of Han; no direct relation to the native Ōtomo clan or feudal Ōtomo clan . Takamuko clan ( 高向氏 ) – descended from Emperor Wen of the Chinese Cao Wei dynasty; famous for Takamuko no Kuromaro .
Han (Japanese: 藩, "domain") is a Japanese historical term for the estate of a daimyo in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912). [1] Han or Bakufu-han (daimyo domain) [2] served as a system of de facto administrative divisions of Japan alongside the de jure provinces until they were abolished in the 1870s.
A map of the territories of the Sengoku daimyo around the first year of the Genki era (1570 AD). Daimyo (大名, daimyō, Japanese pronunciation: ⓘ) were powerful Japanese magnates, [1] feudal lords [2] who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings.
The Tosa Domain (土佐藩, Tosa-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, controlling all of Tosa Province in what is now Kōchi Prefecture on the island of Shikoku. It was centered around Kōchi Castle, and was ruled throughout its history by the tozama daimyō Yamauchi clan.
A map of Sawayama Castle, which Iga ikki allegedly, according to a retrospective account, participated in a siege against. The Bansenshūkai , an early Edo period document compiled in 1676 by a member of the Fujibayashi family, alleges an incident from 1558 regarding a ninja commander, Tateoka Doshun , from Iga leading a combined force of Iga ...
Saigō Takamori, the last great warrior of the Satsuma, was one of the zealous supporters of the imperial restoration, but ended up leading the rebellion against the imperial government in 1877 that culminated with the destruction of the Satsuma clan and the end of the vestiges of feudal Japan's Daimyos.
Kokura Domain (小倉藩, Kokura-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now eastern Fukuoka Prefecture. It was centered around Kokura Castle in what is now Kitakyushu, Fukuoka and was ruled by the fudai daimyō Ogasawara clan for much of its history.