Uto Domain
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Uto Domain (宇土藩, Uto-han), also known as Udo Domain, was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Higo Province in modern-day Kumamoto Prefecture.[1]
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Uto Domain 宇土藩 | |||||||||
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Domain of Japan | |||||||||
1646–1870 | |||||||||
Mon of the Hosokawa clan
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Capital | Uto jin'ya | ||||||||
• Type | Daimyō | ||||||||
Historical era | Edo period | ||||||||
• Established | 1646 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1870 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Kumamoto Prefecture |
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In the han system, Uto 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.