Shikano Domain

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Shikano Domain(鹿野藩,Shikano-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Inaba Province in modern-day Tottori Prefecture. [1]

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Edo period period of Japanese history

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Inaba Province province of Japan

Inaba Province was an old province of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Tottori Prefecture. It was sometimes called Inshū (因州). Inaba bordered on Harima, Hōki, Mimasaka, and Tajima Provinces.

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In the han system, Shikano 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.

The han or domain is the Japanese historical term for the estate of a warrior after the 12th century or of a daimyō in the Edo period (1603–1868) and early Meiji period (1868–1912).

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List of daimyōs

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

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The daimyō were powerful Japanese feudal lords who, until their decline in the early Meiji period, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. In the term, dai (大) means "large", and myō stands for myōden(名田), meaning private land.

  1. Kamei Korenori [4]
  2. Kamei Masanori [4]

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  2. Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
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