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This category includes articles on a period of Japanese history which was ruled by Shoguns and when the influence of merchants was weak, from the Kamakura period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1185-1603). According to some historians, the Edo period also belongs to this category as a period of Shoguns.
The Ashikaga Shogunate established a loose class system when it ruled Japan as a feudal shogunate during the Muromachi period from 1338 to 1573. The final collapse of the Ashikaga worsened the effects of the Sengoku period (or "Age of Warring States"), the state of social upheaval and near-constant civil war in Japan since 1467.
Han were feudal domains that formed the effective basis of administration in Tokugawa-era Japan. The Han are given according to their domain seat/castle town by modern region ( -chihō , roughly comparable to ancient circuits, -dō ) and ancient province ( kuni/-shū , roughly comparable to modern prefectures, -to/-dō/-fu/-ken ).
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
The koku is a Japanese unit of measurement equal to about 180 litres, or 5 bushels. [7] The power of feudal lords was often directly quantified by their output in koku rather than acreage of land ownership or military might. [8] In fact, the amount of military service required from a vassal depended on the koku of their specific fief.
During the Meiji period, Japan underwent a rapid transition towards an industrial economy. [194] Both the Japanese government and private entrepreneurs adopted Western technology and knowledge to create factories capable of producing a wide range of goods. [195] By the end of the period, the majority of Japan's exports were manufactured goods ...
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Fukuchiyama Domain (福知山藩, Fukuchiyama-han) was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Tanba Province in what is now the west-central portion of modern-day Kyoto Prefecture. It was centered initially around Fukuchiyama Castle in what is now the city of Fukuchiyama, Kyoto. [1] [2] [3]