{{Italic title}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{nihongo|'''''Shinpan'''''|親藩}} was a class of ''daimyō'' in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan who were certain relatives of the ''Shōgun''.
While all ''shinpan'' were relatives of the ''shōgun'', not all relatives of the shōgun were ''shinpan''; an example of this is the Matsudaira clan of the Okutono Domain. Non-''daimyō'' relatives, such as the ''Gosankyō'', were also known as ''kamon'' – thus the ''shinpan'' lords were alternatively known as ''kamon daimyō'' (家門大名). ''Shinpan'' included the Gosanke, the Matsudaira clan of Aizu and the Matsudaira clan of the Fukui Domain. These branch families were created after the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara; there were 23 ''shinpan'' domains, producing a total of approximately 2.6 million ''koku'' of rice. Because they were family and thus could wield informal power, they were not permitted to hold official positions in the ''bakufu.'' These families could also provide a shogunal successor if necessary.
== See also == * ''Fudai daimyō'' * ''Tozama daimyō'' ==Further reading== *Totman, Conrad. (1967). ''Politics in the Tokugawa bakufu, 1600–1843''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. *Peter Duus. (1976). ''The Rise of Modern Japan.'' Houghton-Mifflin Company. *John W. Hall and Marius Jansen, eds. 1968. ''Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan.'' Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Category:Daimyo Category:Government of feudal Japan Category:Tokugawa clan
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