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Beginning in [[1641]], Fukuoka was assigned, along with [[Saga han]], to contribute to the defenses of [[Nagasaki]] harbor. As a result of this obligation of military service, the ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' obligations of these two domains were lessened.
Beginning in [[1641]], Fukuoka was assigned, along with [[Saga han]], to contribute to the defenses of [[Nagasaki]] harbor. As a result of this obligation of military service, the ''[[sankin kotai|sankin kôtai]]'' obligations of these two domains were lessened.
Areas of the domain were administered by magistrates (''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'') appointed by the Kuroda: ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' (town magistrates) oversaw the twin cities of Hakata and Fukuoka, ''kôri bugyô'' (district magistrates) oversaw farming villages and post-towns, and ''ura bugyô'' (harbor magistrates) oversaw coastal villages. Thirty areas had been designated as ''ura'' ("harbors") by [[1605]], each coming under the jurisdiction of an ''ura bugyô''; by the 18th century, this number had swelled slightly to 39, with each designated area encompassing anywhere from a few hundred to more than a thousand villagers. A number of villages were divided in half, or even in three, with "harbor portions" (''urabun''), "hill portions" (i.e. farming areas, ''okabun''), and "town portions" (i.e. commercial areas, ''machibun'') coming under the jurisdictions of different magistrates. Some towns were even physically, geographically, relocated in order to effect this distinction; these included the villages of Shingû and Fukuma, for example, which had previously been part of the Minato and Shimosaigô villages respectively.<ref>Kalland, 20.</ref>
==Lords of Fukuoka han==
==Lords of Fukuoka han==
==References==
==References==
*Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 16.
*Arne Kalland, ''Fishing Villages in Tokugawa Japan'', University of Hawaii Press (1995), 16.
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