The Obata Domain (小幡藩, Obata-han?) was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Kōzuke Province.
In the han system, Obata 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 than the feudalism of the West.
Famous quotes containing the word domain:
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)