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 2013-4-27.
In the han system, Hirose 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.
List of daimyōs The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.
Matsudaira clan, 1666–1868 (fudai; 30,000 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 [PDF 34 of 80]; retrieved 2013-4-27.
See also List of Han Abolition of the han system
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