Hirose Domain Explained

Native Name:広瀬藩
Conventional Long Name:Hirose Domain
Common Name:Hirose Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:Domain of Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Capital:Hirose jin'ya
Today:Shimane Prefecture
Year Start:1666
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period
Image Map Caption:Walls of Hirose Domain

right|thumb|270px|Hirose Domain’s Stone Monument

right|thumb|270px|Matsudaira Naooki, final daimyo of Hirose Domain

was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Izumo Province in modern-day Shimane Prefecture.

History

In 1666, Konei, the second son of Matsudaira Naomasa, the lord of the Matsue Domain, was given 30,000 koku and established the domain. In 1682, Konei was halved for the crime of being involved in the Echigo Disturbance, but in 1686, he was increased by 5,000 koku and 10,000 koku in 1694, and it became 30,000 koku again, and then he was sealed for 205 years in the 10th generation. In 1850, the eighth generation, Naohiro, was praised as a public official of the shogunate and became the lord of the castle.

In 1871, it became Hirose Prefecture due to the Haihan-chiki Prefecture, and in the same year, it merged with Matsue Prefecture, Mori Prefecture, and part of Hamada Prefecture (Oki region) to become Shimane Prefecture.

The Matsudaira family, the lord of the domain, was made a peerage in 1882, and was conferred a viscount in 1884.[1]

In the han system, Hirose was a political and economic abstraction based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] In other words, the domain was defined in terms of kokudaka, not land area.[3] This was different from the feudalism of the West.

List of daimyo

The hereditary daimyōs were head of the clan and head of the domain.

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Matsudaira clan, 1666 - 1871(Fudai daimyo)
1Matsudaira Chikayoshi (松平親義)1666 - 1702Uenosuke (上野助) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
2Matsudaira Chikatoki (松平チカトキ)1702Shikibu Shisuke (式部師輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
3Matsudaira Chikatomo (松平チカトモ)1702 - 1728Hida no kami (ひだ の 髪) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
4Matsudaira Chikaaki (松平千秋)1728 - 1749Hida no kami (ひだ の 髪) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
5Matsudaira Chikaki (松平チカキ)1749 - 1757Omi no kami (お見 の 髪) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
6Matsudaira Chikasada (松平千笠)1757 - 1773Shikibu Shisuke (式部師輔) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
7Matsudaira Naoyoshi (松平直義)1773 - 1803Sado no kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
8Matsudaira Naohiro (松平直弘)1803 - 1850Awaji no kami (淡路 の 髪) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
9Matsudaira Naoki (松平直樹)1850 - 1861Sado no kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku
10Matsudaira Naooki (松平直井)1861 - 1871Sado no kami (佐渡守) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)30,000 koku

See also

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See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.japanese-castle-explorer.com/province.html?name=Izumo "Izumo Province" at JapaneseCastleExplorer.com
  2. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.
  4. [Edmond Papinot|Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph]