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

• a patchwork of some 260 domains: charcoal the shogun’s own lands and loyal houses, grey-tan the outer lords on the rim
• the domains survive under the emperor until 1871; red marks the former shogunal lands ruled directly from Tokyo
• Outer Manchuria, Qing territory until the treaties of Aigun (1858) and Peking (1860)
• the Ussuri coast, held jointly from 1858 and Russian from 1860, when Vladivostok was founded
• Sakhalin: Ainu, Nivkh and Uilta lands claimed by Japan and Russia, left undivided in 1855 and Russian from 1875
• Ezo: the Ainu homeland, its trade monopolised by the Matsumae domain; renamed Hokkaido and colonised from 1869
• the southern Kurils, Ainu islands under Japanese administration; the 1855 Treaty of Shimoda set the border north of Etorofu
• the Ryukyu kingdom, vassal of Satsuma and tributary of China, annexed as Okinawa Prefecture in 1879

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