Mito Domain 水戸藩 | |
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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.