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*''Japanese'': 盛岡藩 ''(Morioka han)''
*''Other Names'': 南部藩 ''(Nanbu han)''
*''Territory: parts of [[Mutsu province]]''
*''Castle: [[Morioka castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Nanbu clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 100,000 (before [[1808]]), 200,000 (after)''
Morioka ''han'' was one of roughly ten smaller ''[[han]]'' located in [[Mutsu province]] in the [[Edo period]], alongside the larger, more prominent [[Sendai han]]. It was ruled by the [[Nanbu clan]] from [[Morioka castle]].
The domain originally possessed a ''[[kokudaka]]'' of roughly 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', but this was doubled in [[1808]] in recognition of the Nanbu clan's contributions to the defense of [[Ezo]] ([[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]) against [[Russia]]n encroachment. The new 200,000 ''koku'' level brought with it ''[[kuni-mochi]]'' ("province-holding") status for the Nanbu clan, but it was only an ''omotedaka'' increase, meaning an increase in the official status of the domain, as measured in ''koku'', but not an actual increase in the domain's agricultural production or geographic territory.
Prior to 1808, the domain restricted its use of the term ''[[kuni]]'' (country/state), referring to the domain itself, to internal documents. In exchanges with the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] or other domains, humbler terms such as ''zaisho'' (residence) or ''ryôbun'' (portion of territory) were used, in accordance with the customs of [[omote and uchi|''omote'' and ''uchi'']]. However, once the clan gained ''kuni-mochi'' status, it began to employ the term ''kuni'' in its external correspondence, signifying its increased status.
Similarly, the domain briefly, from [[1753]] to [[1797]], referred to its chief elder governmental advisors as ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', employing the same term which the Tokugawa used to refer to its chief governmental advisors. Historian [[Luke Roberts]] suggests this may have been done to lend the advisors, the clan, and/or the domain as a whole more prestige within internal contexts. In external communications, the domain was pressured to employ humbler terms such as ''toshiyori'' (lit. "Elder"), and eventually, after 1797, returned to using the less presumptuous and more widely used (i.e. within other domains) term ''[[karo|karô]]'' ("house elder").
The domain is known to have suffered from economic difficulties in the early-mid-18th century, leading to a [[1742]] prohibition on residents from other domains<ref>The term used in the formal documents is ''kuni''.</ref> settling within the territory Morioka ''han''. This was done in order to prevent the domain's limited resources from being divided even more thinly, across more people; however, the economic difficulties were such that the domain instead saw a considerable exodus of its own people, as they sought better fortunes elsewhere. The affair damaged popular support for the domain's leaders, as some argued that the domain's government should make Morioka a place others want to come to, not a place that people want to leave.
==Daimyô of Morioka==
*[[Nanbu Toshinao]] (d. [[1632]])
...
===Other Notable Figures from Morioka===
*[[Yoshimura Kan'ichiro|Yoshimura Kan'ichirô]]
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==References==
*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. pp48-50.
[[Category:Han]]
*''Other Names'': 南部藩 ''(Nanbu han)''
*''Territory: parts of [[Mutsu province]]''
*''Castle: [[Morioka castle]]''
*''Lords: [[Nanbu clan]]''
*''[[Kokudaka]]: 100,000 (before [[1808]]), 200,000 (after)''
Morioka ''han'' was one of roughly ten smaller ''[[han]]'' located in [[Mutsu province]] in the [[Edo period]], alongside the larger, more prominent [[Sendai han]]. It was ruled by the [[Nanbu clan]] from [[Morioka castle]].
The domain originally possessed a ''[[kokudaka]]'' of roughly 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', but this was doubled in [[1808]] in recognition of the Nanbu clan's contributions to the defense of [[Ezo]] ([[Hokkaido|Hokkaidô]]) against [[Russia]]n encroachment. The new 200,000 ''koku'' level brought with it ''[[kuni-mochi]]'' ("province-holding") status for the Nanbu clan, but it was only an ''omotedaka'' increase, meaning an increase in the official status of the domain, as measured in ''koku'', but not an actual increase in the domain's agricultural production or geographic territory.
Prior to 1808, the domain restricted its use of the term ''[[kuni]]'' (country/state), referring to the domain itself, to internal documents. In exchanges with the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] or other domains, humbler terms such as ''zaisho'' (residence) or ''ryôbun'' (portion of territory) were used, in accordance with the customs of [[omote and uchi|''omote'' and ''uchi'']]. However, once the clan gained ''kuni-mochi'' status, it began to employ the term ''kuni'' in its external correspondence, signifying its increased status.
Similarly, the domain briefly, from [[1753]] to [[1797]], referred to its chief elder governmental advisors as ''[[roju|rôjû]]'', employing the same term which the Tokugawa used to refer to its chief governmental advisors. Historian [[Luke Roberts]] suggests this may have been done to lend the advisors, the clan, and/or the domain as a whole more prestige within internal contexts. In external communications, the domain was pressured to employ humbler terms such as ''toshiyori'' (lit. "Elder"), and eventually, after 1797, returned to using the less presumptuous and more widely used (i.e. within other domains) term ''[[karo|karô]]'' ("house elder").
The domain is known to have suffered from economic difficulties in the early-mid-18th century, leading to a [[1742]] prohibition on residents from other domains<ref>The term used in the formal documents is ''kuni''.</ref> settling within the territory Morioka ''han''. This was done in order to prevent the domain's limited resources from being divided even more thinly, across more people; however, the economic difficulties were such that the domain instead saw a considerable exodus of its own people, as they sought better fortunes elsewhere. The affair damaged popular support for the domain's leaders, as some argued that the domain's government should make Morioka a place others want to come to, not a place that people want to leave.
==Daimyô of Morioka==
*[[Nanbu Toshinao]] (d. [[1632]])
...
===Other Notable Figures from Morioka===
*[[Yoshimura Kan'ichiro|Yoshimura Kan'ichirô]]
{{stub}}
==References==
*[[Luke Roberts|Roberts, Luke]]. ''Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan''. University of Hawaii Press, 2012. pp48-50.
[[Category:Han]]
