Oyumi Domain Explained

Native Name:生実藩
Conventional Long Name:Oyumi Domain
Common Name:Oyumi Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Today:part of Chiba Prefecture
Year Start:1623
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period

was a Japanese domain of the Edo period, located in Shimōsa Province (modern-day Chiba Prefecture), Japan. The site of the Oyumi jin'ya is now under a residential area of the city of Chiba. The domain was ruled through its entire history by the Morikawa clan.

History

Oyumi Domain was created in February 1627, when Morikawa Shigetoshi, a hatamoto in the service of Shōgun Tokugawa Hidetada acquired holdings in Sagami, Kazusa and Shimōsa Provinces with revenues exceeding the 10,000 koku necessary to qualify as a daimyō. He was allowed to build a jin'ya on the site of the Sengoku period Oyumi Castle. He later rose to the post of rōjū, and committed junshi on the death of Tokugawa Hidetada. His successors continued to rule Oyumi Domain until the Meiji Restoration.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Oyumi Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] [2] The domain was centered on what is now Chuo Ward and Midori Ward of the city of Chiba.

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank revenues
11627–1632Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10, 000 koku
21632–1663Iga-no-kami (伊賀守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
31663–1692Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
41692–1732Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
51732–1734Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
61734–1764Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
71764–1788Kii-no-kami (紀伊守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10, 000 koku
81788–1838Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
91838–1855Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
101855–1858Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
111858–1862Dewa-no-kami (出羽守)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
121862–1871Naizen-no-kami (内膳正)Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku

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Notes and References

  1. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  2. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.