Hirose Domain

Hirose Domain (広瀬藩, Hirose-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Izumo Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture.^[1]

Hirose Domain 広瀬藩
Domain of Japan
1666–1871
Capital	Hirose jin'ya
• Type	Daimyō
Historical era	Edo period
• Established	1666
• Disestablished	1871
Today part of	Shimane Prefecture

In the han system, Hirose 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.

List of daimyōs

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.

• Matsudaira clan, 1666–1868 (fudai; 30,000 koku)^[4]

See also

• List of Han
• Abolition of the han system