| Native Name: | 関宿藩 |
| Conventional Long Name: | Sekiyado Domain |
| Common Name: | Sekiyado Domain |
| Subdivision: | Han |
| Status Text: | under Tokugawa shogunate Japan |
| Government Type: | Daimyō |
| Capital: | Sekiyado Castle |
| Today: | part of Ibaraki Prefecture |
| Year Start: | 1590 |
| Year End: | 1871 |
| Era: | Edo period |
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (the northern portion of Chiba Prefecture and southern portion of Ibaraki Prefecture in modern-day, Japan). It was centered on Sekiyado Castle in what is now the city of Noda, Chiba.
Prime Minister Baron Suzuki Kantarō was born as the son of a samurai of Sekiyado Domain.
Sekiyado is located at the confluence of the Tone River and the Edo River, and was thus a strategic location controlling river traffic in the northern Kantō region, as well as the northeastern approaches to Edo. Following the Battle of Odawara in 1590, the Kantō region by was assigned by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to Tokugawa Ieyasu, who appointed his half-brother Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) Yasumoto as daimyō of the newly formed Sekiyado Domain, with revenues of 20,000 koku. His revenues were increased to 40,000 koku in 1591. The domain passed from Matsudaira control to various other clans over its history: however, as an indication of the importance the Tokugawa shogunate placed on Sekiyado, of the 22 daimyōs who ruled the domain, 22 held the post of Rōjū and three held the post of Kyoto Shoshidai.
From 1669 (with an interruption from 1683 to 1705), the domain remained in the hands of the Kuze clan. Kuze Hirochika played an important role in the Bakumatsu period. As Rōjū, he opposed the Ansei Purge conducted by Ii Naosuke. He was a key supporter of the Kōbu gattai policy of supporting the Shogunate through marriage ties to the Imperial family, and one of the prime signatories to treaties ending Japan’s national isolation policy.
During the Boshin War, the domain officially remained a supporter of the shogunate, and contributed many samurai to the Shōgitai; however, many of its younger retainers supported the Sonnō jōi movement and defected to the Satchō Alliance. After the Battle of Ueno, the final daimyō of Sekiyado, Kuze Hironari, submitted to the new Meiji government. He was appointed domain governor under the new administration, until the abolition of the han system in July 1871 and subsequently became a viscount under the kazoku peerage. The former Sekiyado Domain was absorbed into the new Chiba Prefecture.
As with most domains in the han system, Sekiyado Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] [2]
| Name | Tenure | Courtesy title | Court Rank | kokudaka | ||
| Matsudaira clan (Hisamatsu) (fudai) 1590–1616 | ||||||
| 1 | 1590–1603 | Inaba-no-kami (因幡守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 22,700 koku | ||
| 2 | 1603–1616 | Kai-no-kami (甲斐守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 22,700 koku | ||
| Nomi-Matsudaira clan (fudai) 1617–1619 | ||||||
| 1 | 1617–1619 | Osumi-no-kami (大隈守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 26,000 koku | ||
| Ogasawara clan (fudai) 1619–1640 | ||||||
| 1 | 1619–1640 | Saemon-no-suke (左衛門佐) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 22,700 koku | ||
| 2 | 1640–1640 | Tosa-no-kami (土佐守) | Lower 5th (従五四位下) | 22,700 koku | ||
| Hōjō clan (tozama) 1640–1644 | ||||||
| 1 | 1640–1644 | Dewa-no-kami (出羽守) | Lower 4th Lower 5th (従五位下) | 20,000 koku | ||
| Makino clan (fudai) 1644–1656 | ||||||
| 1 | 1644–1647 | Hizen-no-kami (豊前守) | Lower 4th Lower 4th (従四位下) | 17,000 koku | ||
| 2 | 1647–1656 | Sado-no-kami (佐渡守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 17,000→27,000 koku | ||
| Itakura clan (fudai) 1656–1669 | ||||||
| 1 | 1656–1656 | Suo-no-kami (周防守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 50,000 koku | ||
| 2 | 1656–1661 | Awa-no-kami (阿波守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 50,000→45,000 koku | ||
| 3 | 1661–1669 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 45,000→50,000 koku | - | |
| Kuze clan (fudai) 1669–1683 | ||||||
| 1 | 1669–1679 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守); JIju (侍従) | Lower 4th (侍従) | 50,000 koku | ||
| 2 | 1679–1683 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (侍従) | 50,000 koku | ||
| Makino clan (fudai) 1683–1705 | ||||||
| 1 | 1683–1695 | Bizen-no-kami (備後守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (侍従) | 53,000→73,000 koku | ||
| 2 | 1695–1705 | Bizen-no-kami (備後守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (侍従) | 73,000 koku | ||
| Kuze clan (fudai) 1705–1871 | ||||||
| 1 | 1705–1720 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 50,000 koku | ||
| 2 | 1720–1748 | Sanuki-no-kami (讃岐守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 50,000→60,000 koku | ||
| 3 | 1748–1785 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 60,000→58,000 koku | ||
| 4 | 1785–1817 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 58,000→68,000 koku | ||
| 5 | 1817–1830 | Nagato-no-kami (長門守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 68,000 koku | ||
| 6 | 1830–1862 | Yamato-no-kami (大和守); Jiju (侍従) | Lower 4th (従四位下) | 68,000 koku | ||
| 7 | 1862–1868 | Oki-no-kami (隠岐守) | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 68,000→48,000 koku | ||
| 8 | 1868–1871 | x | Lower 5th (従五位下) | 48,000 koku | ||