List of Han

This is an incomplete list of the major "Han" of the Tokugawa period. Han were feudal domains that formed the effective basis of administration in Tokugawa-era Japan. The han are given along with their approximate borders compared with the modern prefecture system.

The "han" system was abolished by the Meiji government in 1871.

Hokkaidō

*Matsumae - Located in modern-day Matsumae town, Matsumae District; held by the Matsumae clan. Only domain in Ezo (modern Hokkaidō). Also known as Tate.

= Tōhoku =

In Mutsu Province
*Hirosaki - Located in modern-day Aomori Prefecture
*Kuroishi - Branch of Hirosaki han, based in modern-day Kuroishi, Aomori
*Hachinohe - Branch of Morioka han
*Kunohe - Branch of Morioka Domain, corresponded to modern Kunohe District, Iwate
*Morioka - Located in modern-day Akita, Aomori, and Iwate Prefectures, originally consisted of 10 districts - in modern Iwate: Iwate, Hienuki, Waga, Shiwa, Kunohe, Ninohe, and Hei (now split into Kamihei and Shimohei); in modern Aomori: Sannohe and Kita (now divided into Kamikita and Shimokita districts); in modern Akita: Kazuno
*Kōri - Based in modern-day Kōri town, Date District, Fukushima
*Aizu - Based in modern-day Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture; controlled by the Hoshina (Matsudaira) family.
*Ichinoseki - Branch of Sendai han, based in modern-day Ichinoseki, Iwate; held by the Tamura clan, a branch family of the Date clan
*Iwakidaira - held by the Torii family briefly from 1606-1622.
*Miharu - Held by the Kato, Matsushita, and Akita families.
*Moriyama - Held by the Mito-Matsudaira clan, a branch of the Tokugawa
*Sendai - Based in modern-day Sendai, Miyagi; held by the Date family
**Mizusawa Domain - subdomain
*Shimotedo - Based in modern-day Tsukidate town, Date District, Fukushima
*Sōmanakamura - Located in modern-day Fukushima Prefecture, capital was modern-day Sōma, Fukushima; was briefly Nakamura Prefecture after the abolition of the han system
*Tonami - Created in 1870 and granted to the Matsudaira of Aizu. Consisted of the districts of Kita (today Kamikita and Shimokita districts) and Sannohe, both in modern-day Aomori and Ninohe in Iwate. Capital was at modern-day Mutsu, Aomori
*Yunagaya
*Izumi

In Dewa Province
*Tsuruoka - Based in modern-day Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture; held by the Sakai clan. Also known as Shōnai.
*Dewa-Matsuyama (a branch of Tsuruoka)
*Ōyama (a branch of Tsuruoka)
*Nigaho
*Yamagata - Based in modern-day Yamagata, Yamagata Prefecture; held by the Torii family
*Yonezawa - Held by the Uesugi clan.
*Nagatoro- Held by the Yonezu clan.
*Kameda- Held by the Iwaki clan.
*Honjō- Held by the Rokugō clan.
*Shinjō- Held by the Tozawa clan.
*Kaminoyama
*Tendo
*Yonezawashinden

Kantō

In Hitachi Province
*Mito, held by a branch of the Tokugawa clan.
*Matsuoka (sub-domain of Mito)
*Kasama
*Shishido
*Shimotsuma
*Shimodate
*Hitachi-Fuchū
*Tsuchiura
*Asō
*Yatabe
*Ushiku

In Shimotsuke Province
*Kurohane
*Ōtawara (not to be confused with Odawara)
*Kitsuregawa
*Utsunomiya
*Mibu
*Fukiage
*Sano
*Ashikaga

In Kōzuke Province
*Tatebayashi
*Isezaki
*Maebashi
*Takasaki
*Numata
*Yoshii
*Annaka
*Nanokaichi
*Obata

In Shimousa Province
*Koga
*Yūki
*Sekiyado
*Takaoka
*Omigawa
*Sakura - Based in modern-day Chiba Prefecture; held by the Hotta clan
*Tako
*Oyumi

In Kazusa Province
*Goi
*Tsurumaki
*Jōzai - Based in modern-day Chiba Prefecture; held by the Hayashi clan (Jōzai). Previously called Kaibuchi, later reassigned to the Takiwaki-Matsudaira clan of Ojima and renamed Sakurai.
*Iino - Based in modern-day Chiba Prefecture; held by a branch famiy of the Aizu Domain's Hoshina and later Matsudaira clans.
*Ichinomiya
*Sanuki
*Kururi
*Ōtaki

In Awa Province
*Awa-Katsuyama
*Tateyama
*Hōjō

In Musashi Province
*Okabe
*Kuki
*Oshi - Based in modern-day Saitama Prefecture; held by the Matsudaira clan and Abe clan
*Iwatsuki - Based in modern-day Saitama Prefecture; held by the Nagai clan, Ōoka clan, Abe clan
*Kawagoe - Based in modern-day Saitama Prefecture; held by the Sakai clan,Hotta clan,Yanagisawa clan,Akimoto clan,Matsudaira clan
*Mutsuura

In Sagami Province

*Odawara - Based in modern-day Kanagawa Prefecture; held by the Okubo clan,Abe clan,Inaba clan
*Oginoyamanaka

=Chūbu=

In Echigo Province
*Murakami
*Kurokawa
*Mikkaichi
*Shibata
*Muramatsu
*Yoita
*Nagaoka
*Mineyama
*Shiiya
*Takada
*Itoigawa

In Shinano Province
*Iiyama
*Susaka
*Matsushiro
*Ueda
*Komoro
*Iwamurata
*Matsumoto - Based in modern-day Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture; held by the Matsudaira and Mizuno clans and others
*Okutono - Held by the Ogyū branch of the Matsudaira clan; later known as Tatsuoka and centered in Shinano Province.
*Takashima
*Takatō
*Iida
*Ōhama

In Kai Province
*Kōfu
*Yamura

In Etchū Province
*Toyama

In Kaga Province
*Kanazawa
*Daishōji

In Echizen Province
*Maruoka
*Fukui
*Katsuyama
*Ōno
*Sabae
*Tsuruga

In Wakasa Province
*Obama
*Takahama

=Tōkai=

In Suruga Province
*Numazu
*Tanaka
*Ojima

In Tōtōmi Province
*Sagara
*Kakegawa
*Yokosuka
*Hamamatsu

In Mikawa Province
*Yoshida (later called Toyohashi)
*Tawara
*Hatagamura
*Nishiōhira
*Okazaki
*Koromo
*Nishio
*Kariya
*Ogyū-Okutono (see Tanoguchi)
*Ashisuke

In Owari Province
*Owari
*Inuyama (sub-domain of Owari)

In Hida Province
*Hida-Takayama

In Mino Province
*Naegi
*Iwamura
*Kanō
*Imao (sub-domain of Owari)
*Takasu
*Takatomi
*Gujōhachiman
*Ōgaki

Kansai

In Ise Province
*Nagashima
*Kuwana Held by the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira clan.
*Komono
*Kanbe
*Ise-saijo(Minami-hayashizaki)
*Ise-kameyama
*Tsu - Based in modern-day Mie Prefecture; held by the Tōdō clan
*Hisai

In Shima Province
*Toba

In Ōmi Province
*Miyagawa
*Katada
*Ōmizo
*Hikone
*Hikoneshinden
*Yamakami
*Mikami
*Nishōji
*Minakuchi
*Zeze

In Yamashiro Province
*Yodo

In Yamato Province
*Yagyū
*Kōriyama
*Koizumi
*Yanagimoto
*Kaiju-Shibamura
*Uda-Matsuyama
*Kujira
*Takatori

In Kii Province
*Wakayama (ruled by a branch of the Tokugawa clan)

In Izumi Province
*Kishiwada
*Hakata

In Kawachi Province
*Sayama
*Tannan

In Settsu Province

*Takatsuki
*Asada - Based in modern-day Hyōgo and Osaka Prefectures; held by the Aoki clan
*Amagasaki
*Sanda

In Tanba Province

*Tanba-Kameyama
*Sonobe
*Yamaga
*Ayabe
*Fukuchiyama
*Sasayama
*Kaibara

In Tango Province
*Tanabe
*Miyazu
*Mineyama

In Harima Province
*Akashi
*Ono
*Migusa
*Himeji
*Hayashida
*Tatsuno
*Anshi
*Mikazuki
*Akō

In Tajima Province
*Izushi
*Toyooka

In Awaji Province

*Awaji-sumoto A part of the Tokushima Domain, it was held by the Inada family, retainers of the Hachisuka clan.

=Chūgoku=

In Inaba Province
*Tottori
*Shikano
*Wakasa

In Hōki Province
*Yonago
*Kurayoshi
*Kurosaka
*Yabase

In Izumo Province
*Hirose
*Mori
*Matsue
*Matsueshinden

In Iwami Province
*Yoshinaga
*Hamada
*Tsuwano

In Bizen Province
*Okayama
*Koshima

In Mimasaka Province
*Tsuyama
*Tsuyamashinden
*Mimasaka-Katsuyama

In Bitchū Province
*Niwase
*Ashimori
*Ikusaka
*Asao
*Okada
*Kamogata
*Bitchu-Matsuyama
*Niimi
*Nariwa
*Nishiebara

In Bingo Province
*Fukuyama
*Miyoshi

In Aki Province
*Hiroshima
*Hiroshimashinden

In Suo Province
*Iwakuni
*Tokuyama
*Kudamatsu

In Nagato Province
*Chōshū - Based in modern-day Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture; held by the Mōri clan
*Chōfu
*Kiyosue

Shikoku

In Awa Province
*Tokushima - Based in modern-day Tokushima city, Tokushima Prefecture; held by the Hachisuka clan

In Sanuki Province
*Takamatsu
*Marugame
*Tadotsu

In Iyo Province
*Saijō
*Komatsu
*Imabari
*Iyo-Matsuyama
*Ozu
*Niiya
*Iyoyoshida
*Uwajima
*Tomida
*Matsuyamashinden

In Tosa Province
*Tosa
*Tosashinden

Kyūshū

In Chikuzen Province
*Fukuoka
*Akizuki
*"'Tōrenji

In Chikugo Province
*Kurume
*Yanagawa
*Miike

In Buzen Province
*Kokura
*Kokurashinden
*Nakatsu

In Bungo Province
*Kitsuki
*Hiji
*Mori
*Funai
*Usuki
*Saeki
*Oka

In Hizen Province
*Karatsu
*Saga
*Hasunoike
*Ogi
*Kashima
*Hirado
*Hiradoshinden
*Ōmura
*Shimabara
*Fukue

In Tsushima Province
*Tsushima - Based on Tsushima Island; held by the Sō clan

In Higo Province
*Kumamoto (Higo)
*Uto
*Hitoyoshi
*Kumamotoshinden

In Hyūga Province
*Nobeoka
*Takanabe
*Sadowara
*Obi

In Satsuma and Ōsumi Provinces
*Satsuma - Based in modern-day Kagoshima; held by the Shimazu family, and controlled Ryūkyū Kingdom as well.

*Ryūkyū - Controlled as a quasi-independent nation for much of the Edo period by Satsuma; briefly became a "han" from 1872-1879.

References

*Bolitho, Harold (1974). "Treasures among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan". New Haven: Yale University Press.
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