Matsuoka Domain Explained

Native Name:松岡藩
Matsuoka-han
Conventional Long Name:Matsuoka Domain
Subdivision:Han
Nation:Japan
Title Leader:Daimyō
Leader1:Tozawa Masamori (first)
Year Leader1:1602-1622
Leader2:Nakayama Nobuaki (last)
Year Leader2:1861–1871
Capital:Matsuoka Castle
Coordinates:36.7403°N 140.7064°W
Membership Title1:Province
Membership1:Hitachi Province
Today:Ibaraki Prefecture
Year Start:1602
Year End:1871
Event Start:Establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate
Event End:Abolition of the han system
Era:Edo period

, also known as 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 Matsuoka Castle in what is now the city of Takahagi, Ibaraki. With the exception of its first twenty years, was ruled by the Nakayama clan.

History

Following the Battle of Sekigahara, in 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu shifted the Satake clan from its ancestral territories in Hitachi Province to Dewa Province in northern Japan. In 1602, he awarded a portion of the former Satake lands to Tozawa Masamori, marking the start of Matsuoka Domain. He served in a number of important posts within the administration of the Tokugawa shogunate, and was subsequently transferred to Shinjō Domain in Dewa Province in 1622. Matsuoka Domain was divided, with 30,000 koku going to Mito Domain and 10,000 koku to Tanagura Domain.

In 1646, the hereditary karō of Mito Domain, Nakayama Nobumasa, established his residence at Matsuoka. His son, Nakayama Nobuyoshi was confirmed under Tokugawa Yorifusa, to have holdings of 20,000 koku as a subsidiary domain of Mito Domain.

The 6th daimyō of Matsuoka, Nakayama Nobutoshi, moved his residence to Ōta, and the domain was then referred to as . His descendants continued to reside at Ōta until the time of the 10th daimyō, Nakayama Nobutaka, who returned the seat of the clan back to Matsuoka. During the Boshin War, the 14th daimyō, Nakayama Nobuaki, sided with the pro-Imperial forces, and after the Meiji restoration in 1868, Matsuoka Domain was finally recognized as independent of Mito Domain. The following year, the position of daimyō was abolished, and Nakayama Nobuaki became domain governor until retiring from public life with the abolition of the han system in 1871. His son Nobuzane would be created the first Baron Nakayama during the conversion of the old feudal titles to kazoku peerage in 1884.[1]

The domain had a total population of 12,805 people in 2842 households per a census in 1869.[2]

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

Unlike most domains in the han system, Matsuoka Domain consisted of a single territory calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[3] [4]

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Tozawa clan (tozama) 1602-1622
11602-1622Ukyo-no-suke (右京亮) Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)40,000 koku
Nakayama clan (tozama) 1622-1871
1(ja)1622-1642Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
21642–1651Higashi-ichi-no-kami (東市正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
31651-1681Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下))25,000 koku
41681-1682Ichi-no-kami (市正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
51683-1703Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
61703-1711Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
71711-1712Ichi-no-kami (市正)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
81712-1743Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
91743-1771Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
101771-1819Bitchu-no-kami (備中守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
111819-1828Bitchu-no-kami (備中守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
121828-1857Bingo-no-kami (備後守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
131857-1861Bizen-no-kami (備前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
14(ja)1861-1871Bitchu-no-kami (備中守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)25,000 koku
1871-Baron (男爵)Junior 3th Rank (従三位)

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Peerage of Japan . November 1912 . Japan Gazette . B07NXY1SSV .
  2. http://www1.parkcity.ne.jp/sito/102.html Edo daimyo.net
  3. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  4. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.