Hitachi-Fuchū Domain Explained

Conventional Long Name:Ishioka Domain

Hitachi-Fuchū Domain
Common Name:Hitachi-Fuchū Domain
Subdivision:Domain
Nation:Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
P1:Hitachi Province
S1:Prefectures of Japan#Former prefecturesIshioka Prefecture
Today:Ibaraki Prefecture
Year Start:1602
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period

was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Hitachi Province (modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture), Japan. It was centered on Fuchū Jin'ya in what is now the city of Ishioka, Ibaraki. It was also known as or

History

The domain was created in 1602, when Rokugō Masanori, the head of the Rokugō clan, a prominent family of Dewa Province, was awarded a 10,000 koku holding in Hitachi-Fuchū for serviced rendered to Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Battle of Sekigahara. The clan was transferred to Honjō Domain in Dewa in 1623. The domain then passed into the hands of the Minagawa clan until 1645, when that clan was reduced to hatamoto status for lack of a direct heir.

In 1700, the domain was revived for the 5th son of Tokugawa Yorifusa of Mito Domain, who assumed the Matsudaira surname. The Matsudaira continued to rule the domain until the Meiji restoration. The domain was renamed Ishioka-han in 1869. It was abolished in the Haihan Chiken order of 1871.

The domain had a population of 16,913 people in 2774 households, of who, 901 were classed as samurai in 198 household and 182 were classed as ashigaru in 109 households per a census in 1869.[1]     

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Hitachi-Fuchū Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[2] [3]

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Rokugō clan (tozama) 1602-1623
11602–1623Hyōgō-gashira (兵庫頭) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 koku
Minagawa clan (fudai) 1623-1645
11623–1625Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Lower 4th (従四位下) 10,000 koku
21625–1645Yamashiro-no-kami (山城守) Lower 5th (従五位下) 10,000 ->15,000 ->18,000 koku
31645–1645-none- -none-18,000 koku
tenryō 1645–1700
Matsudaira clan (Shinpan) 1700-1871
11700–1705Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
21705–1707Noto-no-kami (能登守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
31707–1733Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
41733–1735Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
51735–1742Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
61742–1784Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
71784–1795Ukon-daibu (右京大夫)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
81795–1833Harima-no-kami (播磨守); Jiju (侍従)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
91833–1868Ukon-daibu (右京大夫)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku
101868–1871Harima-no-kami (播磨守)Lower 4th (従四位下)20,000 koku

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Notes and References

  1. http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/sito/12.html Edo daimyo.net
  2. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  3. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.