Changes

The end of the shogunate and abolition of the ''han'' system brought with it an end of the [[samurai]] class and of the ''daimyô''. The Uesugi clan were incorporated into the ''[[kazoku]]'' or noble peerage, as Counts, or ''Hakushaku'' in Japanese.

The end of the shogunate and abolition of the ''han'' system brought with it an end of the [[samurai]] class and of the ''daimyô''. The Uesugi clan were incorporated into the ''[[kazoku]]'' or noble peerage, as Counts, or ''Hakushaku'' in Japanese.

==Society & Economics==

===Society & Economics===

Due to the relatively large samurai population in the domain, which strained the domain's ability to support on rice stipends, many lower-ranking samurai were encouraged to engage in activities such as the weaving and even the selling of cloth, one of many examples in Edo period Japan of how [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] ideals did not always live up to socio-economic realities.<ref>Ravina, 10.</ref>

Due to the relatively large samurai population in the domain, which strained the domain's ability to support on rice stipends, many lower-ranking samurai were encouraged to engage in activities such as the weaving and even the selling of cloth, one of many examples in Edo period Japan of how [[Neo-Confucianism|Neo-Confucian]] ideals did not always live up to socio-economic realities. These cloth-weaving samurai operated part of a putting-out system, in which certain merchants authorized by the domain provided thread and looms to the samurai, and the samurai sold back silk cloth.<ref>Ravina, 10, 197.</ref>

 

The samurai of Yonezawa for the most part saw the [[sonno|Imperial loyalists]] as a threat to the security or autonomy of their domain, and were willing to fight to defend it.<ref>Ravina, 202.</ref>

==References==

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