Kaminoyama Domain

Kaminoyama Domain 上山うえやま藩はん
under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
1622–1871
Capital	Kaminoyama Castle
• Type	Daimyō
Historical era	Edo period
• Established	1622
• Disestablished	1871
Today part of	part of Yamagata Prefecture

Reconstructed keep of Kaminoyama Castle

Kaminoyama Domain (上山うえやま藩はん, Kaminoyama han) a feudal domain in Edo period Japan, located in Dewa Province (modern-day Yamagata Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Kaminoyama Castle in what is now the city of Kaminoyama, Yamagata.

History

Kaminoyama Domain was situated on the strategic Ushū Kaidō, subroute of the Ōshū Kaidō connecting Edo with the northern portion of Honshu. The domain was sandwiched in between the powerful Yamagata Domain to the north and the Yonezawa Domain to the south.

During the Muromachi period, the area was noted as a hot spring resort and a stronghold of the Mogami clan. It was a contested territory between the Mogami and the Date clans during the Sengoku period, and later between the Mogami and the Uesugi clan. After the destruction of the Mogami clan by the Tokugawa shogunate, Kamiyama Domain (40,000 koku) was created in 1622 for Matsudaira Shigetada, who laid out the plan of the future castle town. The Matsudaira were replaced by the Gamō clan from 1626-1627, followed by the Toki clan from 1628-1691, and the Kanemori clan from 1692-1697. Kaminoyama Domain was then ruled by the Fujii branch of the Matsudaira clan from 1698 until the Meiji restoration. The domain had 2200 households per the 1852 census and maintained its primary Edo residence (kamiyashiki) in Azabu. The clan’s Edo temple was Tessho-ji in Nishi-Asakusa.

During the Bakumatsu period, the domain strongly supported the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai from the domain played a key role in the attack on the Satsuma Domain residence in Edo. During the Boshin War, the domain joined the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei and troops from the domain were involved in the Battle of Hokuetsu, as a substantial portion of the domain’s holdings were also in Echigo Province.

After the end of the conflict, with the abolition of the han system in July 1871, Kaminoyama Domain became “Kaminoyama Prefecture”, which later became part of Yamagata Prefecture.

Bakumatsu period holdings

• Dewa Province (Uzen)
  • 37 villages in Murayama District
• Echigo Province
  • 21 villages in Kariwa District
  • 33 villages in Santō District

List of daimyō

#	Name	Tenure	Courtesy title	Court Rank	kokudaka
Matsudaira clan (Nomi) (fudai) 1622-1626
1	Matsudaira Shigetada (松平まつだいら重忠しげただ)	1622-1626	Tango-no-kami　(丹後たんご守もり)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	40,000 koku
2	Matsudaira Shigenao (松平まつだいら重しげる直ただし)	1626-1626	Tango-no-kami (丹後たんご守もり)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	40,000 koku
Gamō clan (tozama) 1626-1627
1	Gamō Tadatomo (蒲生がもう忠ただし知ち)	1626-1627	Nakatsuka Daiyu　(中務なかつかさ大輔だいすけ); Jijū (侍従じじゅう)	Lower 4th (従したがえ四よん位い下か)	40,000 koku
Toki clan (fudai) 1628-1691
1	Toki Yoriyuki (土岐とき頼よりゆき行ぎょう)	1628-1678	Yamashiro-no-kami　(山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	25,000 koku
2	Toki Yoritaka (土岐とき頼よりゆき殷いん)	1678-1691	Iyo-no-kami　(伊予いよ守もり)	Lower 4th (従したがえ四よん位い下か)	35,000 koku
Kanamori clan (tozama) 1692-1697
1	Kanamori Yoritoki (金森かなもり頼よりゆき時とき)	1692-1697	Izuno-no-kami (出雲いずも守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	38,700 koku
Matsudaira clan (Fujii) (fudai) 1781-1871
1	Matsudaira Nobumichi (松平まつだいら信通のぶみち)	1781–1789	Etchu-no-kami (越中えっちゅう守もり)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
2	Matsudaira Nagatsune (松平まつだいら長ちょう恒ひさし)	1789–1812	-none-	-none-	30,000 koku
3	Matsudaira Nobumasa (松平まつだいら信しん将しょう)	1812–1819	Yamashiro-no-kami (山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
4	Matsudaira Nobutsura (松平まつだいら信しん亨とおる)	1820–1864	Yamashiro-no-kami (山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
5	Matsudaira Nobufusa (松平まつだいら信しん古いにしえ)	1864–1871	Yamashiro-no-kami　(山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
6	Matsudaira Nobuzane (松平まつだいら信愛しんあい)	1864–1871	Yamashiro-no-kami　(山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
7	Matsudaira Nobuyuki (松平まつだいら信行のぶゆき)	1864–1871	Yamashiro-no-kami　(山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
8	Matsudaira Nobumichi (2) (松平まつだいら信しん宝たから)	1864–1871	Yamashiro-no-kami　(山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
9	Matsudaira Nobutsune (松平まつだいら信しん庸いさお)	1864–1871	Yamashiro-no-kami (山城やましろ守まもる)	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku
10	Matsudaira Nobuyasu (松平まつだいら信しん安やす)	1864–1871	-none-	Lower 5th (従したがえ五ご位い下か)	30,000 koku

Further reading

• Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
• Sasaki Suguru (2004). Boshin Sensō 戊辰戦争ぼしんせんそう. Tokyo: Chuokōron-shinsha.

External links

• (in Japanese) Kaminoyama Domain on "Edo 300 HTML"