Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT · 1871

Abolition of the han system (1871)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The domains abolished”

29 Aug 1871 — An imperial decree, read to the former lords in Tokyo, abolished all 261 domains. In their place came prefectures governed by men appointed from the capital. The government assumed the domains’ debts and continued payments to the lords and their samurai, buying their consent to the change.

When: 29 Aug 1871
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Early Meiji reforms (1868–77) (chapter 4 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
Atlas: Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000

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Map showing Abolition of the han system (1871), turning point in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 — TURNING POINT · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v0.2.1 dated political boundaries · Atlas chapter bibliography and event-specific source record · Joint Japanese–Russian compendium of territorial treaties, 1855–1905 · Natural Earth v5.1.2 complete geographic reference · Natural Earth full administrative reference units · Natural Earth v5.1.2 disputed-area references · The World and Japan database: official historical treaties

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY 4.0
Maps of History, citing the scholarly bibliography in SOURCES.md. Historical factual reference; no copyrighted prose reproduced
Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Japan and the Russian Federation. Official historical treaty facts
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
Natural Earth contributors. Public domain
GRIPS / University of Tokyo. Historical official treaty facts; no translated prose copied

Domains in earlier years use the published c.1862 village reconstruction, the nearest available source. Tenryo and rebellion overlays are explicitly regional locators and do not claim cadastral or uniform held territory.

proxy: 1855 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · proxy: 1875 treaty extent; Natural Earth 5.1.2 coastline · proxy: Natural Earth administrative vintage · reconstruction: 1877 · reconstruction: Existing treaty/event date · reconstruction: Pre1879 geographic reference · vector: 1853–1879 · vector: 1853–1884 · vector: 1859–1884 · vector: 1859–1894 · vector: 1860–1894 · vector: 1870–1879 · vector: 1871–1884 · vector: 1873–1884 · vector: 1877–1879

Layer records and reconstruction methods