Kurume Domain
In the han system, Kurume 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 from the feudalism of the West. List of "daimyōs". The hereditary "daimyōs" were head of the clan and head of the domain. At Kurume, the Tokugawa "shōguns" granted 210,000 "koku" to the Arima clan from 1620 to 1868. The Arima clan leaders became viscounts in the Meiji period.