Miike Domain

Miike Domain (三池藩, Miike-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.

Miike Domain
三池藩
Domain of Japan
1621–1871
CapitalMiike jin'ya
History
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1621
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofFukuoka Prefecture

In the han system, Miike 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.

Tachibana clan, 1621–1806; 1868–1871 (tozama; 10,000 koku)

  1. Tanetsugu
  2. Tanenaga
  3. Taneakira
  4. Tsuranaga
  5. Nagahiro
  6. Tanechika
  7. Taneyoshi (transfer to Shimotedo Domain, succeeded by Tachibana Taneharu)
  8. Taneyuki (returned from Shimotedo)

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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