Miike Domain
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Han (Japan)
The or domain was the name of the estate belonging to a warrior in Japan after the 17th century. The fiefs of the daimyos of the samurai class of Japan during the Edo period were called han.-Edo period:...
of the Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
, located in Chikugo Province
Chikugo Province
is the name of a former province of Japan in the area that is today the southern part of Fukuoka Prefecture on Kyūshū. It was sometimes called , with Chikuzen Province...
(modern-day Ōmuta, Fukuoka
Omuta, Fukuoka
is a city located in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.As of January 1, 2010, the city has an estimated population of 127,126 and the density of 1,558.87 persons per km²...
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List of lords
- Tachibana clanTachibana clanOver the course of Japanese history, there have been two families with the name Tachibana:*Tachibana clan - a clan of kuge prominent in the Nara and Heian periods...
, 1621-1806; 1868-1871 (TozamaTozamaA ' was a daimyo who was considered an outsider by the rulers of Japan. The term came into use in the Kamakura period and continued until the end of the Edo period.-Edo period:...
; 10,000 kokuKokuThe is a Japanese unit of volume, equal to ten cubic shaku. In this definition, 3.5937 koku equal one cubic metre, i.e. 1 koku is approximately 278.3 litres. The koku was originally defined as a quantity of rice, historically defined as enough rice to feed one person for one year...
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- Tanetsugu
- Tanenaga
- Taneakira
- Tsuranaga
- Nagahiro
- Tanechika
- Taneyoshi (transfer to Shimotedo Domain, succeeded by Tachibana Taneharu)
- Taneyuki (returned from Shimotedo)