Ogi Domain
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Not to be confused with Obi Domain.
Ogi Domain (小城藩, Ogi-han) was a Japanese domain in the Edo period. It is associated with Hizen Province in modern-day Saga Prefecture on the island of Kyūshū.[1]
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Ogi Domain 小城藩 | |
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Domain of Japan | |
1642–1871 | |
Capital | Ogi jin'ya |
• Type | Daimyō |
Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1642 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
Today part of | Saga Prefecture |
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In the han system, Ogi 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.