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:
“We all desiren, if it mighte be,
To han husbandes hardy, wise, and free,
And secret, and no niggard, ne no fool,
Ne him that is aghast of every tool,
Ne none avaunter, by that God above!”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)