was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Izumo Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture."Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com; retrieved 2013-4-11.
In the han system, Mori was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18. This was different from the feudalism of the West.
History The domain was ruled for the entirety of its history by a branch of the Matsudaira clan of Fukui.
List of daimyōs The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Matsudaira clan, 1677–1871 (shinpan; 10,000 koku)Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Matsudaira (Echizen-ke" at Nobiliare du Japon, p. 30; retrieved 2013-4-27.
TakamasaBorton, Hugh. "Peasant uprisings in Japan of the Tokugawa period", Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan (1938), p. 46 n31. Naotaka Naokazu Naomichi Naoyuki Naokiyo Naokata Naooki Naoyori Naotoshi
See also List of Han Abolition of the han system
References
External links "Mori" at Edo 300
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