Tako Domain Explained

Native Name:多胡藩
Conventional Long Name:Tako Domain
Common Name:Tako Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Capital:Tako jin'ya
Today:part of Chiba Prefecture
Year Start:1590
Year End:1871
Era:Edo period

was a minor feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo-period Japan, located in Shimōsa Province (the northern portion of Chiba Prefecture Japan. It was centered on what is now part of the town of Tako in Katori District. It was ruled for most of its history by the Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan.

History

Tako Domain was originally created for Hoshina Masamitsu in 1590, a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he was transferred to Takatō Domain, and Tako Domain passed into the tenryō territories directly controlled by the Tokugawa shogunate, and administered by hatamoto, which included members of the Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan.

In 1713, Matsudaira Katsuyuki, who administered 8000 koku within Katori District, gained an additional 3000 koku of revenue in Settsu Province. The combined amount of 12,000 koku was enough to qualify him as a daimyō and Tako Domain was revived. He was allowed to build a jin'ya in what later become the town of Omigawa, Chiba, where his successors continued to rule until the Meiji Restoration.

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

As with most domains in the han system, Tako Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields.[1] [2]

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Hoshina clan (fudai) 1590–1601
11590–1600Higo-no-kami (肥後守) Lower 5th (従五位下)10,000 koku
xtenryō 1600–1713
Matsudaira (Hisamatsu) clan (fudai) 1713–1871
11713–1728Buzen-no-kami (豊前守)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
21728–1736Mino-no-kami (美濃守)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
31736–1768Okura-no-sho (大蔵少輔)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
41768–1794Buzen-no-kami (豊前守)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
51794–1818Nakatsukasa-no-sho (中務少輔)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
61818–1848Sagami-no-kami (相模守)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 koku
71848–1869Bungo-no-kami (豊後守)Lower 5th (従五位下)12,000 –> 10,000 koku
81869–1871Buzen-no-kami (豊前守)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.