Hasunoike Domain
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Hasunoike Domain (蓮池藩, Hasunoike-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It is associated with Hizen Province in modern-day Saga Prefecture.[1]
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Hasunoike Domain 蓮池藩 | |
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Domain of Japan | |
1642–1871 | |
Capital | Hasunoike jin'ya |
• Type | Daimyō |
Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1642 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
Today part of | Saga Prefecture |
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In the han system, Hasunoike 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.