Mimasaka Province ( 美作国 , Mimasaka-no kuni ) was a province of Japan in the area that is northern Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of western Japan. Mimasaka bordered Bitchū , Bizen , Harima , Hōki , and Inaba Provinces. Its abbreviated form name was Sakushū ( 作州 ) . In terms of the Gokishichidō system, Mimasaka was one of the provinces of the San'in circuit.
11-525: Under the Engishiki classification system, Mimasaka was ranked as one of the 35 "superior countries" (上国) in terms of importance, and one of the "near countries" (近国) in terms of distance from the capital. The provincial capital was located in what is now the city of Tsuyama . Mimasaka was a landlocked province on the southern side of the Chugoku Mountains . The area is very mountainous, and
22-747: Is divided into three major river basins. In the east is the Asahi River which flows through the Maniwa Basin. In the center is the Yoshii River, which flows through the Tsuyama Basin. To the west is the Mimasaka area, which contains three smaller river basins. Due to this geography, the main transportation method in pre-modern times was by boat. In 713, at the suggestion of Bizen-no-kami Nanten - and Bizen-no-suke Kamitsukeno-no-Kenji
33-896: The kokufu have been located within what is now the city of Tsuyama. The site is now located under the Tsuyama Sōja shrine . The Mimasaka Kokubun-ji and the ruins of the Mimasaka Kokubun-niji as located nearby, The ichinomiya of the province is the Nakayama Shrine , also located in Tsuyama. During the Heian period , the area was part of the holdings of the Heike clan . In the Kamakura period , Kajiwara no Kagetoki followed by Wada Yoshimori served as shugo before
44-689: The Eita, Katsuta, Tomata, Kume, Mashima, and Oba districts of Bizen Province were separated into a new province, and, and Kamitsukeno-no-Kenji was appointed as the first governor of Mimasaka. This separation was the final stage of the disintegration of the former Kingdom of Kibi , and was intended to further weaken the Kibi clan by putting its iron resources directly under the control of the imperial government . In Mimasaka, there are many place names that are directly linked to people or places in Yamato. The ruins of
55-666: The Ukita clan . After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, it became united again with Bizen Province under Kobayakawa Hideaki . After his death without heir only two years later, the Tokugawa shogunate assigned most of the province to the Mori clan as Tsuyama Domain . The Mori moved the capital of the province from the Innoshō area , to their newly built jōkamachi at Tsuyama . In 1697,
66-578: The Mori clan were replaced by a cadet branch of the Echizen- Matsudaira clan . The size of the domain was reduced to only 100,000 koku , and later to 50,000 koku . In 1767, another domain, Katsuyama Domain , with 23,000 koku , was created for the Miura clan . Mimasaka was the home of the samurai Miyamoto Musashi , the author of The Book of Five Rings . In 1871, following the abolition of
77-605: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 226910844 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:47:11 GMT Kokudaka Kokudaka ( 石高 ) refers to a system for determining land value for taxation purposes under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan , and expressing this value in terms of koku of rice. One koku (roughly equivalent to five bushels )
88-556: The han system , Mimasaka was divided into Tsuyama, Mashima, Kurashiki, Tsuruta, Koromo, Koga, Ikuno, Akashi, Numata, and Tatsuno prefectures, which were merged with Okayama Prefecture inI 1876. Per the early Meiji period Kyudaka kyuryo Torishirabe-chō ( 旧高旧領取調帳 ) , an official government assessment of the nation's resources, the province had 766 villages, with a total kokudaka of 263,477 koku . [REDACTED] Media related to Mimasaka Province at Wikimedia Commons Engishiki Too Many Requests If you report this error to
99-822: The province came under the direct control of the Hōjō clan . In the Muromachi period , the Ashikaga clan took over the former Hōjō holdings. No central powerful local clan ever rose to prominence and the province changed hands frequently between warring factions in the Sengoku period . Control shifted between the Yamana clan , the Akamatsu clan , the Amago clan , the Urakami clan , and
110-419: Was an estimate based on the total economic yield of the land in question, with the value of other crops and produce converted to their equivalent value in terms of rice. The ranking of precedence of the daimyō , or feudal rulers, was determined in part by the kokudaka of the territories under their administration. In 1650, the total kokudaka of Japan was assessed at 26 million koku , with
121-416: Was generally viewed as the equivalent of enough rice to feed one person for a year. The actual revenue or income derived from a holding varied from region to region, and depended on the amount of actual control the fief holder held over the territory in question, but averaged around 40 percent of the theoretical kokudaka . The amount of taxation was not based on the actual quantity of rice harvested, but
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