Tango-Tanabe Domain Explained

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Native Name:丹後田辺藩
Conventional Long Name:Tango-Tanabe Domain
Common Name:Tango-Tanabe Domain
Subdivision:Han
Status Text:under Tokugawa shogunate Japan
Government Type:Daimyō
Capital:Tanabe Castle (Maizuru Castle)
Today:part of Kyoto Prefecture
Year Start:1600
Year End:1871
Event1:Kyōgoku clan
Date Event1:1600
Event2:Makino clan
Date Event2:1668
Era:Edo period

was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Tango Province in what is now the northern portion of modern-day Kyoto Prefecture. It was centered around Tanabe Castle, also known as Maizuru Castle which was located in what is now the city of Maizuru, Kyoto.[1] [2] [3] The area of Tango-Tanabe Domain covered the entire area of Kasa County, and corresponds to the current area of the city of Maizuru, and parts of Yura, Miyazu, and Fukuchiyama.

History

From the Muromachi period, Tango Province had been under the control of the Isshiki clan. However, in the Sengoku period, Toyotomi Hideyoshi placed the province under the control of Hosokawa Tadaoki. Following the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu awarded the entire province of Tango to Kyōgoku Takatomo, who established Miyazu Domain. To ensure the succession of his line, Kyōgoku Takatomo gave 35,000 koku of his holdings to his third son, Kyōgoku Takamitsu, and established a cadet branch of the clan at Tango-Tanabe Domain, and 10,000 koku to his grandson, Kyōgoku Takamichi, who established Mineyama Domain. This proved to be a wise decision, his grandson Kyōgoku Takakuni was charged with misconduct and poor governance by the Tokugawa shogunate and reduced to hatamoto status in 1666.

The third generation Kyōgoku Takamori gave 2000 koku to his younger brother to establish a cadet branch of the clan in 1663, and was transferred to Toyooka Domain in Tajima Province in 1668. The Kyōgoku were replaced by a cadet branch of the Makino clan from Settsu Province,who ruled until the Meiji restoration. During the tumultuous Bakumatsu period, the domain supported the Tokugawa shogunate in the First Chōshū expedition, but at the start of the Boshin War was ordered to remain at Maizuru to guard the Sea of Japan coast. At the time of the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, the domain switched sides to the imperial cause. Tango-Tanabe Domain became "Maizuru Domain" in 1869 and Maizuru Prefecture in 1871 with the abolition of the han system. It subsequently became part of Kyoto Prefecture in 1876. The Makino clan was later ennobled with the kazoku peerage title of shishaku (viscount).

Holdings at the end of the Edo period

Unlike most domains in the han system, which consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields, Tango-Tanabe Domain was a single unified holding.[4] [5]

List of daimyō

Name Tenure Courtesy title Court Rank kokudaka
Kyōgoku clan, 1600-1668 (Tozama)
11600 - 1636Shuri-no-daifu (修理大夫)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
21636 - 1663Hida-no-kami (飛騨守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
31663 - 1668Ise-no-kami (伊勢守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000->33,000 koku
Makino clan, 1668-1871 (Fudai)
11668 - 1671Sado-no-kami(佐渡守); Jijū (侍従)Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)35,000 koku
21671 - 1693Inaba-no-kami (因幡守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
31693 - 1737Kawachi-no-kami (河内守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
41737 - 1750Inaba-no-kami (因幡守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
51750 - 1783Buzen-no-kami (豊前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
61783 - 1804Sado-no-kami (佐渡守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
71804 - 1825Buzen-no-kami (豊前守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
81825 - 1852Kawachi-no-kami (河内守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
91852 - 1869Kawachi-no-kami (河内守)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku
101869 - 1871Takumi-no-kami (内匠頭)Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)35,000 koku

See also

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Book: Nakayama . Yoshiaki . 江戸三百藩大全 全藩藩主変遷表付 . 2015 . Kosaido Publishing . 978-4331802946.
  2. Book: Nigi . Kenichi . 藩と城下町の事典―国別 . 2004 . Tokyodo Printing . 978-4490106510.
  3. Book: Papinot, E. 1910. Historical and Geographic Dictionary of Japan . Tuttle (reprint) 1972 .
  4. [Jeffrey Mass|Mass, Jeffrey P.]
  5. Elison, George and Bardwell L. Smith (1987). Warlords, Artists, & Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, p. 18.