Hayashida Domain Explained

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Native Name:林田藩
Conventional Long Name:Hayashida Domain
Common Name:Hayashida Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Capital:Hayashida jin'ya
Today:part of Hyōgo Prefecture
Year Start:1617
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period

right|250px|thumb|Lecture Hall of Hayashida Domain han school was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Harima Province in what is now the southwestern portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered around the Hayashida jin'ya which was located in what is now the city of Himeji, Hyōgo and was controlled by the tozama daimyō Takebe clan throughout all of its history. [1] [2] [3]

History

Takebe Mitsushige was the 700 koku Amagasaki gundai under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was married to an adopted daughter of Ikeda Terumasa. Their son, Takebe Masanaga, fought at the side of Ikeda Terumasa's sons at the Siege of Osaka from 1614-1615, and was rewarded by being made daimyō of Amagasaki Domain, an honor which he unusually shared with Ikeda Shigetoshi, with each having a kokudaka of 10,000 koku. This proved to be unwieldy, and when the Ikeda clan was transferred to Himeji Domain, Takebe Masanaga moved a slightly distance away to form Hayashida Domain in 1617. Although a tozama clan, the Takebe ruled the domain unbroken to the Meiji restoration. The 3rd daimyō, Takabe Masanori, served as Ōbangashira, Fushimi-bugyō and as Jisha-bugyō in the shogunal administration. The 7th daimyō, Takabe Masakata, established a Han school in 1794 and the 9th daimyō, Takebe Masanori, also served as Ōbangashira and castellan of Nijō Castle in Kyoto. The final daimyō, Takebe Masayo, served in the guard of Prince Kachō Hirotsune in 1868 and supported the Meiji government in the Boshin War. The clan was ennobled with the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount).

The lecture hall of the han school survives, and is a Himeji City Important Cultural Property.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Hayashida Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[4] [5]

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Takebe clan, 1617-1871 (Tozama)
11617 - 1667Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
21667 - 1669Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
31670 - 1715Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
41715 - 1732Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
51732 - 1762Tanba-no-kami (丹波守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
61762 - 1764Ōmi-no-kami (近江守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
71764 - 1812Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
81812 - 1849Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
91849 - 1863Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku
101863 - 1871Naisho-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)10,000 koku

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Nakayama . Yoshiaki . 江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付 . 2015 . Kosaido Publishing . 978-4331802946.
  2. Book: Nigi . Kenichi . 藩と城下町の事典―国別 . 2004 . Tokyodo Printing . 978-4490106510.
  3. Book: Papinot, E. 1910. Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan . Tuttle (reprint) 1972 .
  4. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  5. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.