Mito Domain
Mito (水戸藩, Mito-han) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Hitachi Province in modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture.
| Mito Domain 水戸藩 | |
|---|---|
| under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
| 1602–1871 | |
| Capital | Mito Castle |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1602 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | part of Ibaraki Prefecture |
In the han system, Mito was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields. In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area. This was different from the feudalism of the West.
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