Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000 · THE MAP IN 1840

Map of Japan in 1840

Tokugawa Japan before the Opium War

Japan in 1840: Tokugawa Japan before the Opium War. The map shows who held what: Independent neighbours, Western powers and allies, The shogun’s lands and allies.

On the ground

• Japan was a patchwork of roughly 260 domains. Charcoal shows the shogun’s lands and loyal houses; grey-tan shows the outer lords on the rim.
• The domains survived under the emperor until 1871. The former shogunal lands, marked red, were governed directly from Tokyo.
• Outer Manchuria belonged to the Qing until the treaties of Aigun in 1858 and Peking in 1860.
• The Ussuri coast was held jointly from 1858. It became Russian in 1860, the year Vladivostok was founded.
• Japan and Russia both claimed Sakhalin, the lands of the Ainu, Nivkh and Uilta. The island was left undivided in 1855 and became Russian in 1875.
• Ezo was the Ainu homeland, where the Matsumae domain monopolized trade. Renamed Hokkaido in 1869, it was colonized from that year.
• The southern Kurils were Ainu islands under Japanese administration. In 1855, the Treaty of Shimoda set the border north of Etorofu.
• The Ryukyu kingdom was both a vassal of Satsuma and a tributary of China. It was annexed as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879.

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