| Mito Domain 水戸藩 | |
|---|---|
| under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
| 1602–1871 | |
| Capital | Mito Castle |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1602 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | part of Ibaraki Prefecture |
Mito (水戸藩, Mito-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Hitachi Province in modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture.[1]
In the han system, Mito 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.
- ^ "Hitachi Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-5-15.
- ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- ^ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.