Mikkaichi Domain
Mikkaichi Domain | |
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under Tokugawa shogunate Japan | |
1724–1871 | |
Capital | Mikkaichi jin'ya |
Area | |
• Coordinates | 38°58′19.64″N 139°21′47.74″E / 38.9721222°N 139.3632611°E |
• Type | Daimyō |
Historical era | Edo period |
• Established | 1724 |
• Disestablished | 1871 |
Today part of | part of Niigata Prefecture |
Mikkaichi Domain (
History
[edit]In 1724, the tairō Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu arranged for a 10,000 koku holding in Echigo Province to be assigned to his 5th son, Yanagisawa Tokichika. This marked the start of Mikkaichi Domain. Tochichika turned the domain over to his brother after only three months, and although the Yanagisawa clan remained in control until the Meiji restoration, they preferred to reside in Edo and rely on the collection of revenues as absentee landlords. As a result, the finances of the domain were perpetually in a state of bankruptcy, and belated efforts to remedy the situation through reforms in 1843 failed. During the Bakumatsu period, the domain was unable to fulfil orders to provide troops for coastal defences, and its Edo residence was destroyed in the 1855 Edo earthquake. The final daimyō of Mikkaichi, Yanagisawa Noritada, was the only daimyō to actually visit his domain, and did so only to surrender his forces to neighbouring Shibata Domain during the Boshin War. In July 1871, with the abolition of the han system, Mikkaichi Domain briefly became Mikkaichi Prefecture, and was merged into the newly created Niigata Prefecture. Under the new Meiji government, Yanagisawa Noritada was given the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount).[2]
Bakumatsu period holdings
[edit]As with most domains in the han system, Mikkaichi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[3][4]
- Echigo Province
- 49 villages in Kanbara District
List of daimyō
[edit]# | Name | Tenure | Courtesy title | Court Rank | kokudaka | Notes |
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Yanagisawa clan (fudai) 1724-1868 | ||||||
1 | Yanagisawa Tokichika ( |
1724-1724 | Shikibu-no-shō ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
2 | Yanagisawa Yasutsune ( |
1724-1760 | Danjō-shohitsu ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
3 | Yanagisawa Nobuaki ( |
1760-1782 | Shikibu-no-shō ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
4 | Yanagisawa Satoyuki ( |
1782-1804 | Shinano-no-kami ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
5 | Yanagisawa Satoyo ( |
1804-1826 | Shinano-no-kami ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
6 | Yanagisawa Satoaki ( |
1826-1842 | Danjō-shohitsu ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
7 | Yanagisawa Yasutaka ( |
1842-1856 | Danjō-shohitsu ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku | |
8 | Yanagisawa Noritada ( |
1856-1868 | Shinano-no-kami ( |
Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade ( |
10,000 koku |
Yanagisawa Tokichika
[edit]Yanagisawa Tokichika (
Yanagisawa Yasutsune
[edit]Yanagisawa Yasutsune (
Yanagisawa Nobuaki
[edit]Yanagisawa Nobuaki (
Yanagisawa Satoyuki
[edit]Yanagisawa Satoyuki (
Yanagisawa Satoyo
[edit]Yanagisawa Satoyo (
Yanagisawa Satoaki
[edit]Yanagisawa Satoaki (
Yanagisawa Yasutaka
[edit]Yanagisawa Yasutaka (
Yanagisawa Noritada
[edit]Yanagisawa Noritada (
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- The content of this article was largely derived from that of the corresponding article on Japanese Wikipedia.
- Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint) 1972.
External links
[edit]- "Mikkaichi" at Edo 300 (in Japanese)
Notes
[edit]- ^ Ravina, Mark. (1998). Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan, p. 222.
- ^ Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Yanagisawa" at Noblaire du Japon, p. 71.
- ^ 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.