Mito Domain

Mito Domain
水戸藩
under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
1602–1871
CapitalMito Castle
 • TypeDaimyō
Historical eraEdo period
• Established
1602
• Disestablished
1871
Today part ofpart of Ibaraki Prefecture
Kairaku-en plum tree garden

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.