Moats of Yonezawa Castle, administrative center of Yonezawa Domain
Yonezawa Domain (米沢藩, Yonezawa-han) was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered at Yonezawa castle in what is now the city of Yonezawa, and its territory extended over the Okitama District of Dewa Province, in what is today southeastern Yamagata Prefecture. It was ruled throughout its history by the Uesugi clan, as tozama daimyō, with an initial income of 300,000 koku, which later fell to 150,000–180,000. The Uesugi were ranked as a province-holding daimyō (国持ち大名, kunimochi daimyō) and as such, had the privilege of shogunal audiences in the Great Hall (Ōhiroma) of Edo Castle.[1]
The domain shifted from a poor, indebted, and corruptly led domain to a very prosperous one in only a few decades in the 1760s–80s. Yonezawa was declared in 1830 by the shogunate to be the paragon of a well-managed domain. Scholar Mark Ravina used Yonezawa as a case study[2] in analysing the political status and conceptions of statehood and identity in the feudal domains of the Edo period (1603–1868).
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^Mark Ravina (1999). Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
YonezawaDomain (米沢藩, Yonezawa-han) was a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was...
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their formation.[citation needed] After the Uesugi clan's move to the YonezawaDomain, Toshimasu remained as a retainer and spent half retired life at Mukuan...
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the Akizuki clan of Takanabe Domain, the former masters of this area. Her second son was adopted into the YonezawaDomain and became the famous Uesugi...
譜代藩の研究 : 譜代内藤藩の藩政と藩領 [Research on the Fudai domain: the government and domain of the Fudai Naito domain] (in Japanese). Meiji University. p. 44. Retrieved...
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famed daimyō of YonezawaDomain, Uesugi Yōzan (Harunori), was the 2nd son of the 6th daimyō of Takanabe, Akizuki Tanemitsu. Takanabe's domain school, Meirin-dō...
was born in the YonezawaDomain, Dewa Province (currently Yamagata Prefecture) as the son of a local samurai. He was sent by the domain to Edo for studies...
Yonezawa, Yamagata, where his father was a farmer. With the assistance of a clique of admirals within the Imperial Japanese Navy from former Yonezawa...
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Ikeda was born in 1867, the final year of the Bakumatsu period in YonezawaDomain (modern Yamagata Prefecture), as the eldest son of noted samurai Ikeda...
Boshin War, he sought a pardon for his father-in-law Uesugi Narinori of YonezawaDomain. After the Meiji Restoration and the abolition of the han system in...
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