| Conventional Long Name: | Tottori Domain Japanese: 鳥取藩 |
| Common Name: | Tottori Domain |
| Subdivision: | Domain |
| Nation: | Japan |
| Title Leader: | Daimyō |
| Capital: | Tottori Castle |
| Membership Title1: | Province |
| Membership1: | Inaba and Hōki |
| Today: | Tottori Prefecture |
| Year Start: | 1600 |
| Year End: | 1871 |
| Event End: | Abolition of the han system |
| Era: | Edo period |
right|thumb|270px|Ikeda Yoshinoriright|thumb|270px|Front gate of the Tottori Domain residence in Edo
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, in what is now Tottori Prefecture on the island of Honshu. It controlled all of Inaba Province and virtually all of Hōki Province was centered around Tottori Castle, and was ruled throughout its history by a branch of the Ikeda clan. Tottori Domain was dissolved in the abolition of the han system in 1871 and is now part of Tottori Prefecture.[1] [2] [3] Tottori Domain had two sub-domains, and . In addition, the two branches of the Arao clan, who served as hereditary karō of the clan and castellans of Yonago Castle (15,000 koku) and Kurayoshi Jin'ya (12,000 koku) both had kokudaka equivalents to that of daimyō.
In 1600, after the Battle of Sekigahara, Ikeda Tsuneoki's third son, Ikeda Nagayoshi (Ikeda Terumasa's younger brother) was awarded estates in Hōki Province with a kokudaka of 60,000 koku by Tokugawa Ieyasu. This marked the start of Tottori Domain. In 1615, his son Ikeda Nagayoshi (長幸) was transferred to Bitchū-Matsuyama Domain, and in his place, Ikeda Mitsumasa (the eldest son of Ikeda Toshitaka, the son of Ikeda Terumasa) was transferred from Himeji Domain to an expanded Tottori Domain (325,000 koku) which now included most of Inaba Province as well as Hōki Province. During his 16 year tenure, he built the foundations of the castle town of Tottori.
In 1632, when his uncle Ikeda Tadao, of Okayama Domain died, Mitsumasa exchanged Tottori for Okayama and the clan chieftaincy. Ikeda Tadao's son, Ikeda Mitsunaka became daimyō of Tottori at the age of two, and his descendants would continue to rule the domain to the end of the Edo period. Although the Ikeda clan of Tottori was reduced to a branch of the clan, it was Ikeda Tadao's lineage which was in direct descent from Ikeda Terumasa and Tokugawa Ieyasu's second daughter, Tokuhime, so the Ikeda clan of Tottori was regarded by the Tokugawa shogunate as a kunimochi daimyō clan independent of the head of the Ikeda family of Okayama Domain. In addition to being allowed to use the honorific surname "Matsudaira", the Tottori Ikeda were also allowed the use of the Tokugawa family crest, as well as being formally recognized as Tokugawa relatives (shinpan. Normally, when a daimyō entered Edo Castle, he had to leave his sword with a retainer in front of the entrance. In addition to the Tottori Ikeda family, the privilege of retaining one's sword was granted only to the Kaga-Maeda clan and the Tokugawa clan's closest relations, which were the Tottori-Ikeda clan, the Aizu-Matsudaira clan, and the Echizen-Matsudaira clan.
The domain maintained a secondary castle at Yonago, and jin'ya in other important towns within the domain, such as Kurayoshi, Yahashi, Matsuzaki, and Uradome. The domain suffered greatly from the Tenpō famine from 1833 to 1837.
During the Bakumatsu period, the 12th daimyō, Ikeda Yoshinori, was the older brother of the 15th Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu and had a difficult position between loyalty to the shogunate and the growing forces for the Meiji restoration. Within the domain, conflicts between the loyalists and the pro-Tokugawa factions were intense, and in 1863, an assassination of a senior vassal of the pro-shogunate faction occurred at Honkoku-ji in Kyoto. In the following year, when Chōshū Domain, with which he had a close relationship, was defeated in the Kinmon Incident and was declared enemy of the crown, he began to distance himself from politics, but in the Battle of Toba-Fushimi in 1868 and the Boshin War, he was on the side of the Meiji government army. As a result, he led the clan's forces in various battles. He was awarded 30,000 koku by the new Meiji government. The domain became part of Tottori Prefecture with the abolition of the han system in 1871. Ikeda Terutomo, the 15th chieftain of the clan, was made a marquis in the kazoku peerage in 1884.
As with most domains in the han system, Tottori Domain consisted of several discontinuous territories calculated to provide the assigned kokudaka, based on periodic cadastral surveys and projected agricultural yields, g.[4] [5]
| Name | Tenure | Courtesy title | Court Rank | kokudaka [6] |-|colspan=6| Ikeda clan, 1600-1617 (Tozama)|-||1||||1600 - 1614||Bitchū-no-kami (備中守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||60,000 koku |-||2||||1614 - 1617||Bitchū-no-kami (備中守)|| Junior 5th Rank, Lower Grade (従五位下)||60,000 koku |-|colspan=6| Ikeda clan, 1617-1632 (Tozama)|-||1||||1614 - 1632||Sakon'e-gon-shōshō (左近衛権少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||320,000 koku |-|colspan=6| Tottori-Ikeda clan, 1632-1871 (Tozama, but equivalent to Shinpan)|-||1||||1632 - 1685||Sakon'e-no-shōshō (左近衛少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||2||||1685 - 1700||Hōki-no-kami (伯耆守); Sakon'e-no-shōshō (左近衛少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||3||||1700 - 1739||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||4||||1739 - 1747||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||5||||1747 - 1783||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Sakon'e-no-shōshō (左近衛少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||6||||1783 - 1798||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||7||||1798 - 1807||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Lower Grade (従四位下)||325,000 koku |-||8||||1807 - 1830||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Sakon'e-no-chūshō (左近衛中将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||325,000 koku |-||9||||1830 - 1841||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Sakon'e-no-shōshō (左近衛少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||325,000 koku |-||9||||1841 - 1848||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Sakon'e-no-shōshō (左近衛少将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||325,000 koku |-||10||||1848 - 1850||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Jijū (侍従)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||325,000 koku |-||11||||1850 - 1871||Sagami-no-kami (相模守); Sakon'e-no-chūshō (左近衛中将)|| Junior 4th Rank, Upper Grade (従四位上)||325,000 koku |-|-|}Simplified family tree (Ikeda daimyō of Tottori)
Shikano DomainIn 1685, Ikeda Mitsunaka gave 25,000 koku of new rice lands to his second son, Ikeda Nakazumi, and established a cadet branch of the clan. On August 7, 1702, during the last years of Ikeda Nakazumi's reign, an additional 5,000 koku was added to bring the kokudaka of the domain to 30,000 koku. It existed as a "paper domain" throughout most of the Edo period with its revenues coming from the treasury of the parent domain, but on December 10, 1868, a jin'ya was established in what is now the Shikano neighborhood of the city of Tottori. Domain administration was practically non-existent, with officials dispatched from Tottori Domain in charge of domain affairs. The domain existed primarily as "insurance" to prevent attainder of the parent domain should the ruling daimyō die without a successor. In fact, Ikeda Yoshiyasu, the third daimyō of Tottori, and Ikeda Yoshiyuki, the tenth daimyō of Tottori, were adopted from Shikano Domain. On June 27, 1864, the ninth daimyō of the domain, Ikeda Nakatatsu, committed seppuku after a confrontation with Ikeda Yoshinori, the daimyō of Tottori, over the dispatch of troops to Kyoto. In 1869, the domain was abolished and absorbed back into Tottori Domain. In 1884, a descendant of the last daimyō of Shikano became a viscount in the kazoku peerage.
Wakasa DomainIn 1700, Ikeda Tsunakiyo, the second daimyō of Tottori gave 15,000 koku of new rice lands to his younger brother Ikeda Kiyosada, and established a cadet branch of the clan. In 1720, an additional 5,000 koku was added to bring the kokudaka of the domain to 20,000 koku. As with Shikano Domain, Wakasa existed as a "paper domain" throughout most of the Edo period with its revenues coming from the treasury of the parent domain, but on December 10, 1868, a jin'ya was established in what is now the Wakasa neighborhood of the city of Tottori. Domain administration was practically non-existent, and officials dispatched from Tottori Domain were in charge of all local domain affairs. The fifth daimyō, Ikeda Sadatsune was a noted literary scholar. In 1884, a descendant of the last daimyō of Wakasa became a viscount in the kazoku peerage.
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