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*''Japanese'': 米沢藩 (''Yonezawa han'')

*''Japanese'': 米沢藩 (''Yonezawa han'')

Yonezawa han was a domain in the [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] region of [[Honshu|Honshû]], governed by the [[Uesugi clan]]. Covering the Okitama district of [[Dewa province]], in what is today southeastern [[Yamagata Prefecture]], the territory was ruled from [[Yonezawa castle]] in [[Yonezawa]] city. The Uesugi were ''[[tozama]] daimyô'', with an initial income of 300,000 ''[[koku]]'', which later fell to 150,000-180,000.

Yonezawa han was a domain in the [[Tohoku|Tôhoku]] region of [[Honshu|Honshû]], governed by the [[Uesugi clan]]. Covering the Okitama district of [[Dewa province]], in what is today southeastern [[Yamagata Prefecture]], the territory was ruled from [[Yonezawa castle]] in [[Yonezawa]] city. The Uesugi were ''[[tozama]] daimyô'', with an initial income of 300,000 ''[[koku]]'', which later fell to 150,000-180,000. Though not controlling all of a single province, the Uesugi's holdings were considered significant enough that the clan was considered among the ''taishin [[kunimochi]]'' ("great country holder") ''daimyô''.<ref>Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 19.</ref>

Compared to many other domains, Yonezawa had a relatively large [[samurai]] population, and by the late 18th century, a relatively commercialized economy.<ref>Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 9.</ref> The domain is perhaps most notable for its rapid shift from a poor, indebted, and corruptly led domain to a very prosperous one in only a few decades in the 1760s-80s. Yonezawa was declared in 1830 by the shogunate to be the paragon of a well-managed domain. Scholar [[Mark Ravina]] uses Yonezawa as a case study, in analysing the political status and conceptions of statehood and identity in the feudal domains of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868).

Compared to many other domains, Yonezawa had a relatively large [[samurai]] population, and by the late 18th century, a relatively commercialized economy.<ref>Ravina, ''Land and Lordship'', 9.</ref> The domain is perhaps most notable for its rapid shift from a poor, indebted, and corruptly led domain to a very prosperous one in only a few decades in the 1760s-80s. Yonezawa was declared in 1830 by the shogunate to be the paragon of a well-managed domain. Scholar [[Mark Ravina]] uses Yonezawa as a case study, in analysing the political status and conceptions of statehood and identity in the feudal domains of the Tokugawa period (1603-1868).