Mikazuki Domain
| Mikazuki Domain | |
|---|---|
| under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
| 1697–1871 | |
| Capital | Mikazuki jin'ya |
| Area | |
| • Coordinates | 34°59′27.08″N 134°25′53.29″E / 34.9908556°N 134.4314694°E |
| • Type | Daimyō |
| Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1697 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
| Today part of | part of Hyōgo Prefecture |
Mikazuki Domain (
History
[edit]In April 1676, the 2nd daimyō of Tsuyama Domain, Mori Nagatsugu, gave 15,000 koku of this holdings to his fifth son, Mori Nagatoshi, to create a cadet house. However, this subsidiary domain, Tsuyama Shinden Domain, did not receive official recognition from the shogunate until 1684. In 1697, the Mori clan were disposed from Tsuyama; but Tsuyama Shinden Domain was allowed to remain at its existing 15,000 koku as an independent domain called Mikazuki Domain. It survived nine generations, or 174 years, until the Meiji restoration. The 5th daimyō Mori Hayaatsu opened the han school, "Kōgyōkan". During the Boshin War, the domain quickly sided with the imperial government. In 1871, with the abolition of the han system, the domain became "Mikazuki Prefecture", which was merged with "Shikama Prefecture", which in turn became part of Hyōgo Prefecture.
The clan was ennobled with the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount) in 1884.
Holdings at the end of the Edo period
[edit]As with most domains in the han system, Mikazuki Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[4][5]
- Harima Province
- 7 villages in Issai District
- 40 villages in Sayo District
- 18 villages in Shisō District
List of daimyō
[edit]# Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka 
Mori clan, 1697-1871 (Tozama)
1 Mori Nagatoshi ( 森長 俊 )1697 - 1715 Tsushima-no-kami ( 対馬 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 2 Mori Naganori ( 森長 記 )1715 - 1739 Aki-no-kami ( 安芸 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 3 Mori Toshinobu ( 森 俊春 )1739 - 1774 Aki-no-kami ( 安芸 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 4 Mori Toshitsugu ( 森 俊 韶)1774 - 1793 Kawachi-no-kami ( 河内 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 5 Mori Hayaatsu ( 森 快 温 )1793 - 1801 Shimotsuke-no-kami ( 下野 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 6 Mori Nagayoshi ( 森長 義 )1801 - 1809 Kawachi-no-kami ( 河内 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 7 Mori Nagaatsu ( 森長 篤 )1809 - 1816 Tsushima-no-kami ( 対馬 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 8 Mori Nagakuni ( 森長 国 )1816 - 1848 Sado-no-kami ( 佐渡 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku 9 Mori Toshishige ( 森 俊 滋 )1848 - 1871 Tsushima-no-kami ( 対馬 守 )Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( 従 五 位 下 )15,000 koku
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Bolitho, Harold. (1974). Treasures Among Men: The Fudai Daimyo in Tokugawa Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-01655-0; OCLC 185685588
References
[edit]- ^ Nakayama, Yoshiaki (2015).
江戸 三 百 藩 大全 全 藩 藩主 変遷 表 付 . Kosaido Publishing. ISBN 978-4331802946.(in Japanese) - ^ Nigi, Kenichi (2004).
藩 と城下町 の事典 ―国 別 . Tokyodo Printing. ISBN 978-4490106510. - ^ Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
- ^ Mass, Jeffrey P. and William B. Hauser. (1987). The Bakufu in Japanese History, p. 150.
- ^ Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.