Han System
The han (藩, han?) or domain was the name of the estate belonging to a warrior in Japan after the 17th century. The fiefs of the daimyo of the samurai class of Japan during the Edo period were called han.
Read more about Han System: Edo Period, Comparison With Provinces, Bakufu, Rank, Etymology
Famous quotes containing the words han and/or system:
“Certes this dream, which ye han met tonight,
Cometh of the great superfluity
Of your redde colera,”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)